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On Monday 20 September 2004 1:55 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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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, |
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Half the purpose is to ignore forced downgrades, IMO... |
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> version number system changes |
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That's a bug in how Portage handles versions, not in -U |
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> or slots |
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How so? |
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> properly, and it will sometimes allow a downgrade anyway. |
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Never seen this incident. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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