HEADS-UP: Transition to guile-2.0.x and a new compat-guile1.8 package

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Oct 24 21:13:41 UTC 2012


Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> Well, I don't mind doing that, but I'd like to be sure there's a broad
> consensus that this is the way to go first. I don't think 'duelling
> drafts' is the best way to decide on what direction to go; I'd rather
> make sure we agree on the direction first, and use the drafting process
> simply to refine how we express that direction.

It causes problems for people who build things outside of chroots with
straight rpmbuild, though, if they need to ever build different things
with different buildreqs (even as test builds).

Admittedly, we like to encourage people to use mock, but people will still
hit this.

Bill


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