On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 18:34:36 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > but as long as X is not restarted, the upgrade doesn't break anything. > You come back, you read the elogs, you downgrade the drivers and > everything is fine and dandy.
Except you've wasted time and resources compiling the broken version of the software and then recompiling the version you already had. If the ebuild, in fact it's the nvidia.eclass, can detect that proceeding will cause breakage, why proceed? Then there's the case where an update to another package now prevents the old one from compiling. It shouldn't happen, but it does, so why risk all those disadvantages when portage could use its --keep-going code to restart the emerge with the net package? -- Neil Bothwick God is real, unless specifically declared integer.
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