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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:25:00 -0400 Jeffrey Forman <jforman@g.o> |
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| Just this morning (afternoon/evening) on #-dev I got to talking to |
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| some people about the usefulness of "emerge -U." I was wondering if |
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| someone had any clue as to why its being removed? I frequently mix |
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| packages in~x86 to test, or just to use newer revisions which are more |
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| stable and with -U going away, I wont be able to update my machine |
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| without downgrading a <insert explitive> load of packages. |
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Because it's broken. It doesn't handle forced downgrades, version number |
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system changes or slots properly, and it will sometimes allow a |
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downgrade anyway. |
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| Yes I know about editing package.keywords, but how much of a PITA is |
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| that to have to add an entry for every package you emerge that is |
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| masked for one reason or another. |
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Make a bash alias for it :) |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |