Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Alec Warner wrote: > I think both our points are that there is a middle ground between > screwing the user outright and holding their hand. If you want to > trumpet the change on forums, on www, on -announce, get the message out > there; then I'd be more for a change like that. The problem is las

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-13 Thread Alec Warner
Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: Zac Medico wrote: I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like this is. Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of u

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-13 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like > this is. Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the > upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of users on the >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-13 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:01:41 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Brian Harring wrote: > > > >>Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544), > >>stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06. > >> >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: multiple inheritance support for profiles

2006-08-13 Thread Alec Warner
Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: Said single inheritance protection was added 06/05/06 (rev 3544), stabled for x86 roughly 06/22/06. Hasn't even yet made it to a release media- meaning folk installing from the most current release media st

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: AT emerge info cruft > attachments on bugs.g.o

2006-08-13 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 17:17 +0200, Harald van Dijk wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:42:32PM +, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > [...] > > >> > > >> $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo > > > > > > This works better: > > > > > > $ cd gentoo-x86/*/foo/ > > > > > > This avoids the case where a file by the same na