Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:37:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I wonder why emerge doesn't do something like this by default, actually. Say a package has a serious exploit and an update was made. If the package isn't in world, emerge will never grab the update. If it's not is world, or a

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: October 31, 2008 10:38 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable? Justin wrote: James Homuth schrieb: There are several

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Dale
James Homuth wrote: That'll teach me to just read the Gentoo documentation. I figured emerge --update --deep world covered system, too. As far as what I was told on -dev, it still does. If you use the @system or @world, then that is a different thing. I'm assuming what I was told

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:11:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If it's not is world, or a dependency of a world package, it's not needed and --depclean will catch it. No, it will not :P Don't ask me why, because I don't know. I only know from experience that --depclean does not catch