On 4/27/05, Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:33:14 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > > > > > >>Could this not be made the default? xorg takes *hours* to emerge. After > >>upgrading xorg, i am now left without a fontserver for all of our 30 > >>diskless clients, which are configured to use xfs.
So although it "takes hours to emerge", you think it should, by default, take even longer? > Restoring from backup should always be the last resort, because i backup > filesystems and not packages. If i restore single files i can no longer > be sure if they are still consistent with the rest of the new xorg. I think he's referring to quickpkg, suggesting that anytime you were updating something critical to your system, you'd make sure you had a binary of the current working version, in case anything goes wrong. > Anyway, you did not answer my question: Why not make font-server the > default? What's the use in seperating it at all? Not everyone wants it. > Also, emerge --verbose --ask only help if you know what you are looking > for. I porbably would have overlooked the "-font-server" especially when > upgrading lots of packages. Then don't upgrade lots of packages at once? -- Richard Brown -- [email protected] mailing list
