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Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski kirjoitti: |
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> Richard Freeman pisze: |
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>> Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski wrote: |
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>>> And I strongly suggest to leave old mechanism of portage, because we |
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>>> saw couple times what _GREAT_ automatic makes with distro - eg. |
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>>> Mandriva with all creators and cheap installer - couple apps not |
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>>> running, low performance. |
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>>> Don't get me wrong - I also have that problems, and they make me |
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>>> nervous, but when I think what could I done by automatic replace |
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>>> package or binary then I get to thinking that everything is ok... |
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>> Nobody is suggesting getting rid of all blocks or automating upgrades |
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>> that shouldn't be automated. |
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>> They're suggesting adding a little more intelligence to the current |
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>> system. Really safe upgrades might happen automatically. Others |
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>> might still fail, but would contain more informational errors. Others |
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>> might just continue as they do currently. |
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>> You don't complain when you upgrade from shorewall 3.4.7 to 3.4.8 and |
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>> portage auto-uninstalls 3.4.7 when you're done, do you? The whole |
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>> point of a package manager is to automate routine and safe |
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>> activities. The alternative is manual install of tarballs... |
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> And tell me, why whole day _no_one_ could wrote that like this? Thanks |
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> for info. |
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Because for Gentoo developers it should be quite evident what the thread |
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was really about and this is not an educational list (we have |
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gentoo-user for that). To me it seems you misunderstood the topic all |
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the way. Responding in private to try and keep noise out of the public |
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mailing list. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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