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On 06/30/2012 12:42 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: |
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> That might be neat, but it would already help if you had to add |
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> --allow-downgrades or similar to emerge in case Portage wants to |
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> downgrade one or more packages. |
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> Besides preventing an accidental downgrade it would raise the |
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> awareness of the problem. |
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I think people would just put it in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS and forget about |
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it, since downgrades are a fairly common occurrence, due to changes in |
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version numbering schemes or buggy versions being dropped from the tree. |
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Maybe a RESTRICT="downgrade" metadata setting would help to reduce the |
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noise so that people would be less likely to enable --allow-downgrades |
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by default. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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