Re: solution for those depending on PEAR packages with non-PEAR

From: Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:50:12 +0000
Subject: Re: solution for those depending on PEAR packages with non-PEAR
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Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:22:14 -0400 greg@chiaraquartet.net (Greg Beaver) wrote:
um, no. Read the proposal. It's not a "permanent fork" - it's a one-shot uri-based package that is overwritten by the next release.
Or how to be sure that this one-shot replacement will not break other applications?
by asking the user explicitly if he wants to install the patch.
How do you prevent one to do not provide a permanent fork?
by providing a way to make temporary "forks" otherwise you have no option but to fork everything (call it bundling if you prefer). regards, Lukas

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