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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> How about if we add a `emerge --upgrade` target that is analogous to |
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> `apt-get upgrade`? If we hide the new defaults behind a target like |
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> --upgrade, rather than change the defaults globally, then it allows |
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> people's existing scripted and habitual emerge commands to continue to |
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> work in a backward compatible manner. |
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I think this is a good idea - and I wasn't seriously proposing that we |
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just change those flags (if we were to do it we'd have to deprecate |
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them slowly/etc). |
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Perhaps define that --upgrade means "do the right thing (TM)" and that |
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it shouldn't be used in scripts unless those using the script are |
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willing to tolerate that this behavior could change over time. |
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Rich |
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