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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

David Kowis wrote:
<snip>
> This looks like a safe plan of action. Although you could simply replace 
> all this
> (potentially) difficult logic with a warning and query defaulting to n for a
> while. Of course, only display the warning if they've got modules for 1.6
> installed, if that's not to difficult to detect.
> 
> Your process seems good. It's the system administrator's job to ensure that 
> an
> upgrade won't break their system.
<snip>

While that's true, we are also encouraged to not break packages as we
modify others. ;) The above plan sounds like it should stop breakage,
but it may be annoying as guile will continually be put in the update
queue on a system-update.

Perhaps make a guile1.8 package and have whatever needs it explicitly
depend on it, otherwise depend on GUILE, which guile1.8 and guile may
provide?

-sandalle

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