Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski wrote:
> And I strongly suggest to leave old mechanism of portage, because we saw 
> couple times what _GREAT_ automatic makes with distro - eg. Mandriva 
> with all creators and cheap installer - couple apps not running, low 
> performance.
> 
> Don't get me wrong - I also have that problems, and they make me 
> nervous, but when I think what could I done by automatic replace package 
> or binary then I get to thinking that everything is ok...

Nobody is suggesting getting rid of all blocks or automating upgrades 
that shouldn't be automated.

They're suggesting adding a little more intelligence to the current 
system.  Really safe upgrades might happen automatically.  Others might 
still fail, but would contain more informational errors.  Others might 
just continue as they do currently.

You don't complain when you upgrade from shorewall 3.4.7 to 3.4.8 and 
portage auto-uninstalls 3.4.7 when you're done, do you?  The whole point 
of a package manager is to automate routine and safe activities.  The 
alternative is manual install of tarballs...
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