On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:50 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > Well, I often use quickpkg when I want to try a new version of a
> > > package (I quickpkg the currently installed one.. and I want to keep
> > > all the config files). Then I emerge the new one, and I absolutely want
> > > to be able to restore the config files if I want to revert to an older
> > > version, either because they have been broken by the pkg_postinst or
> > > something else. I still haven't heard a good reason to change anything
> > > thats not the printing in quickpkg.
> >
> > i didnt say i was going to be disallowing this, i said i'd be making it
> > no longer the default behavior ... what you want to do will still be
> > perfectly possible
>
> Is quickpkg a candidate for FEATURES?  I'd much prefer this be able to
> be controlled by a configuration file (and overridden on the command
> line) so I don't have to remember to put --iamsureidontcareaboutsecurity
> or whatever on the command line every time.

there's a new quickpkg default opts ala emerge default opts env var
-mike

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