[oe] [oe-commits] org.oe.dev gnuplot: update 4.2.2, add 4.3.0+cvs

[Paul Sokolovsky]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:20:34 +0100
"pHilipp Zabel" <philipp.zabel at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > Hm, but why that file is in .dev branch at all? What was idea of
> > removing 2007 .conf and leaving preferred-versions? Doing a grep,
> > it is referenced only by angstrom-2007-for-openmoko.inc, so
> > shouldn't it be merged there or renamed to make it clear that it
> > relates more to openmoko?
> >
> > Alternatively, maybe indeed rename it to 2008 and start using right
> > away, as there're funky downgrades happen in 2008 already (abiword).
> 
> Or maybe fix those funky downgrades? (Or do both.)

Sure, I'm all for it too ;-).

> I'm not convinced keeping DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1" in some recipes
> forever just because some legacy distro once used that mechanism to
> 'select' an older version, when the newer version clearly works (or at
> least is selected by angstrom-2007-preferred-versions.inc).

It would be nice that someone did some explicit confidence testing
before removing DEFAULT_PREFERENCE="-1", though in this case the fact
that Angstrom 2007.12 shipped with it should be enough ;-).

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