Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski kirjoitti:
> Richard Freeman pisze:
>> 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...
> And tell me, why whole day _no_one_ could wrote that like this? Thanks 
> for info.

Because for Gentoo developers it should be quite evident what the thread 
was really about and this is not an educational list (we have 
gentoo-user for that). To me it seems you misunderstood the topic all 
the way. Responding in private to try and keep noise out of the public 
mailing list.

Regards,
Petteri