portage could alert you what changes will occur before you execute the update. it fetches all the dependencies. gentoo allows you to be conservative or as radical as you may choose.
On 8/29/06, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yep it is pretty annoying to crash a system because you've updated using an "unstable" package--- in any distro. "unstable" tree branch in any distro do warn people of that: "install at your own risk" ;)
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 17:10 +0800, Cocoy wrote:
Does Gentoo have a stable branch now? Or is it still always in-flux?
Hence these days I don't anymore use Debian unstable (nor would think of
using Gentoo) as these are just way too unstable for deployments. I'd
rather be conservative about an always-running service rather than track
down every change, note the fixes that I really need without breaking
compatibility, then manually patch apps while praying it won't break
anything that would force me to do months-long rewrites to my
applications.
yep it is pretty annoying to crash a system because you've updated using an "unstable" package--- in any distro. "unstable" tree branch in any distro do warn people of that: "install at your own risk" ;)
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