William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> That's the beauty of both upstream design and reality.
>
> THERE IS NO NEED FOR ESELECT
>
But eselect makes gentoo so 3l337.. ;)
> Apps will either use and/or be developed for gnupg-1 or
gnupg-2. They
> are different binaries, versioned by upstream. Have
different features
> and functionality. Since gnupg-2 is not a full
replacement or supports
> all of gnupg-1's features.
>
> Think gtk vs gtk2 or apache vs apache2. We quite
commonly have two
> versions of something in tree during the transition
period. Why that is
> unacceptable here is beyond me.
>
Sounds fine to me; is there any technical reason why that
wouldn't work?
> Not to mention again, we are limiting choice, and
forcing one or the
> other. Which is not a complete solution, and makes our
offerings less
> than all other mainstream distros.
>
Good points. Imo, you should get some scripts together and
do it in your cvs
and prove it; if it works, there'll be one less reason to
argue about it.
If not you can roll it back and try again.
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