On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:57:49 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfre...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > We always have to assume that there might not be an up to date > > cache. The Gentoo rsync mirrors do not always ship up to date cache, > > particularly if someone's just changed a widely used eclass. > > Users can wait an hour and run `emerge --sync` again.
...but that's not what happens. Instead, the users get their screen spammed with annoying messages, get confused and run to bugzilla in droves. This just takes us right back to the bad old days when changing anything would result in mass user confusion. The whole 'EAPI' thing wasn't an arbitrary whim. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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