Here's a suggestion for two portage features that I would appreciate. Please tell me if this is the wrong list.
I would like to have a system where ebuilds are classified such that when updating a package, I can tell whether this is a security patch or critical bugfix or new feature release or whatever. Thus, I could set up automatic updates that check only for critical patches and do not install every tiny new fancy thing. Also, a system would be nice, where authors of a package or the ebuild maintainers could supply a message to the user along with the ebuild, for example to warn them of massive numbers of reverse dependencies that are going to be broken by the update (-> libexpat! I would have chosen a different time for the update if I had known what I had to update after that). Best regards Hanno -- [email protected] mailing list
