> It is a critical task, and as such, it needs to be done by an > administrator, under supervision, and, thus, by hand. If I wanted any silly > package admistration system messing with things like the default flags and > compiler, I would better use any other distro. > > The problem is that a source based distro, relies deeply in the compiler > and the libs, and those are tied to the profile in gentoo. So, no, an > autoupdate for this will not be wellcome at all in my side.
Is there a list of what packages have a "critical task" component? For example, I know that that the gcc package requires I do something manually to begin using the newer version. David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
