On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 11:58 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 20:10, Radoslaw Stachowiak wrote: > > Why only web-based apps? What about other tools and apps exposed to the > > network? > Webapps are simpler to install to base users, they are generally just a > "extract, change perms, execute php stuff". > Other stuff is quite more difficult, and sometime you don't have new security > bugs while upstream is away or dead. If all the "upstream away for more than > 3 months" or "upstream dead, package works like a charm" will be removed in a > couple of months from portage, users will start complaining. > And I cannot say I would disagrees with them.
Stupid question .. why does webapps.eclass have SLOT=${PVR} ? This
basically means that even a bump from foo-webapp-1.0-r1 to
foo-webapp-1.0-r2 will not unmerge foo-webapp-1.0-r1 ... Why do you
want every version, never mind every revision slotted?
Thanks,
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa
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