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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

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Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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?
>

I don't think that's a good idea, because then we end up with something
we've got to come back and take care of. Deprecating the old spell. It's
not too hard to be careful with your update lists. just say y when it
asks you. I'm saying this because I don't think we *will* come back and
clean out the old version. The amount of work required to fix a minor
annoyance isn't worth it, IMHO.


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David Kowis

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