Owen Gunden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > emerge -u world *always* introduces potential for breakage. emergers > beware!
I think most of us are well aware of this, but it's certainly worth pointing out again ;-) > To me, the issue is that "emerge apache" should emerge the version of > apache that gentoo recommends, not an old compatibility version. That's a good point, and I agree with it as a general rule. What I have a problem with is that the definition of "apache" changes from following one branch to another without any warning. > It looks to me that Gentoo is trying to understand the exact roles of and > relationships between USE flags, package versions, and arch KEYWORDS. It's > going to take time, but hopefully when it's all figured out we'll have > reached some nice intuitive definition which makes it very clear how to > get the safety you're asking for. Bear with the devs while this gets > worked out. If you're saying that this can all be sorted programmatically without resorting to splitting up the portage tree then I'm all for that. Although I trust myself to watch upgrades closely some kind of sanity checking would be nice, even if it was just to flag up major upgrades in a different colour or something. -- Richard Watson http://www.opencolo.com/ High Value Colocation -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
