Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski wrote:
And I strongly suggest to leave old mechanism of portage, because we saw
couple times what _GREAT_ automatic makes with distro - eg. Mandriva
with all creators and cheap installer - couple apps not running, low
performance.
Don't get me wrong - I also have that problems, and they make me
nervous, but when I think what could I done by automatic replace package
or binary then I get to thinking that everything is ok...
Nobody is suggesting getting rid of all blocks or automating upgrades
that shouldn't be automated.
They're suggesting adding a little more intelligence to the current
system. Really safe upgrades might happen automatically. Others might
still fail, but would contain more informational errors. Others might
just continue as they do currently.
You don't complain when you upgrade from shorewall 3.4.7 to 3.4.8 and
portage auto-uninstalls 3.4.7 when you're done, do you? The whole point
of a package manager is to automate routine and safe activities. The
alternative is manual install of tarballs...
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