Richard Brown wrote: > 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? Yes, if it doesn't break existing setups > > >>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? > Or don't upgrade anything at all -or- use a more upgrade-friendly system.
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