On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 01/02/2012 04:58 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> >> Ah. I must have gotten confused at "So which ones can I remove? >> Solutions involving time travel and/or losing customers will be >> disqualified." >> > > Sorry, this thread has gotten a little out of hand =) > > I think my point was: most solutions available to me now involve potential > breakage. Others require me to be more careful 6 years ago. Neither of those > is desirable. > > The current --update behavior makes this situation easy to get into. If > there are no downsides to the old behavior (the point of this thread), then > I think the old behavior is preferable.
I'd guess it's more architectural wrt the internals of portage. But that's why I figure you'd have to ask the devs... -- :wq
