On 2019.01.24 15:17, Michael Jones wrote:
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A lot of people run emerge without checking the preliminary console
output.
But most (I hope) of them understand the possible problems, and are
willing to "pick up the pieces" if something goes wrong. Most of them
do not blame the Gentoo developers in such a case.
I don't think it's fair to imply that doing that is somehow wrong.
Some/many of us might disagree. If you don't check the output to see
exactly what emerge is going to do, it may well not do what you
want/expect. Is it "wrong" to drive your car with a blindfold on?
The vast majority of Linux distributions support unattended upgrades
without a second thought.
The vast majority of Linux distributions are binary distributions,
where a package either works or not, and if it doesn't, it is very
likely a packaging error. The vast majority of Linux distributions do
not install from source, with lots of ways of configuring things to the
user's liking, many of which possible configurations will not work. I
would say that binary distributions are much more deterministic in
their behavior. You really can't run Gentoo safely for very long
without paying close attention to what you are doing - with both
installs and upgrades.
Jack
