Patrick Lauer posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:53:39 +0200 as excerpted: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:29:00 Daniel Bradshaw wrote: >> Some packages, like findutils, are pretty robust and generally just get >> on with working. >> Other packages, like apache and ssh, need are more fragile and need >> plenty of configuration. > That's almost completely user-side configuration outside the influence > of portage. emerge findutils and emerge apache "works" the same ... > > >> Packages from the second group want emerging on their own, or in small >> groups, the better to keep an eye out for notices about things that >> might break, to update configs, and to check that they're running >> happily. > That's a very individual thing :) > Sometimes apache is a critical service, sometimes apache is just there > as a fallback if/when the lighttpd+php+... stack breaks.
FWIW, there's a portage helper package, IDR the name as I have my own system for this but it looks like it might be helpful here, that allows users to pick and choose their updates. One could run it multiple times, updating (what the user considers) the critical stuff on its own, and updating everything else in a big bunch. That seems like the answer here; it already exists; and it's in the tree (unless it has been removed recently, I don't know as IDR the name). Take a look thru app-portage and see what you find. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
