first of all I think the upgrade mechanism of Portage is really great. only one thing nags me quite often.
When doing my emerge -up world a number of packages come up, but very often it is only a -rxx-Version change. In most cases these are not needed as nothing really new is in it or I am not suffering of the fixed bug. I don't mind if its a small package but I rather would not update qt or kde or something for such a minor version change (even not for changes like kde 3.1.x).
But that leaves me updating every other package by hand (always being on the watch that no big package is updated as a dependency). So the niche update world feature has lost its beauty.
What I would love to see is some way that you could tell what level of minimum change has to happen (should work wirth most packages that use X.Y.Z-rV) before it is upgraded (semi-)automatically.
I am not sure if such a thing was discussed before, but what do you think?
Greetings
Christian
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