Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Mark Rudholm wrote: > >> Jeremy Brake wrote: >> >>> Is it just my imagination, or does bind keep upgrading and downgrading >>> in portage? its getting irritating. > > > This a "bug" in portage that has been known about for a long time. > Fixing it would take at least a partial rewrite of the dep resolver. > Basically, there is a newer version of some package that was installed > as a dependency, but another package DEPENDs on a version of the first > package less than the newest. Portage doesn't know not to upgrade that > 2nd package, even though an older version is required by some other > package. > >> I wasn't very amused with the breaking of Apache conf files, either. >> That's poor package mainatenanceship. > > > The apache config files weren't *broken*. They were fixed. They are now > a whole heck of a lot closer to the way a vanilla apache setup has them. > There was talk of that happening over a year before it happened. There > was a warning that went out to a few mailing lists a week before the new > apache went stable.
I realize this, of course. It was "broken" to begin with. Either way, my point stands. >> I was installing Gentoo on a new desktop system they gave me at work >> last night and was surprised to find that Stage 1 and Stage 2 installs >> are >> no longer supported and that users are instructed not to do them. > > > The reason they are no longer *officially* supported is because many > users would not read the documentation, do things wrong, and file bugs. > This happened a *lot*. The stage 1 and 2 install instructions were > removed from the handbook to cut down on the flood of invalid bugs. > > There is nothing stopping you from doing a stage 1 or 2 install. Just > don't expect help if it breaks. I think I can handle it. -- [email protected] mailing list
