On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:22:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Where I get frustrated/ticked off/mad is when some independent > developer, or group of developers, simply decides to remove code on > **MY** machine and force me to make updates without giving me *ANY** > opportunity to make a choice.
But they do, as long as you don't leave an unreasonably long time between syncs. emerge --sync warns you when your profile has been deprecated. Your problem is that the delay between syncs was such that you skipped the whole warning period, which should be a LONG time. > I get that the leading-edge developer/gamer mentality cannot get their > heads around having machines run for long, long periods of time - > years - but these machines do. Running a machine for a long time is fine, running it without checking for security updates is not. What's wrong with a weekly cron job that runs emerge --sync and glsa-check and emails you the results? -- Neil Bothwick "Windows didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development."
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