Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:25:48
Message-Id: 20110915212456.GA31364@beast
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 01:45:23PM -0700, "Paweee Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
2 > On 9/15/11 1:14 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:03:53 +0200
4 > > Joost Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
5 > >
6 > >> I'm trying to think of how best to avoid users who are not aware to
7 > >> get caught with non-booting systems.
8 > >
9 > > Guess we could try to detect a few common cases and die in pkg_setup()
10 > > whenever the failure is imminent.
11 >
12 > Even better in pkg_pretend if you can use EAPI=4
13
14 Which will misbehave if the kernel is one of the things to be updated.
15 pkg_pretend shouldn't really be used for that unfortunately.
16
17 ~brian