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On 04/30/2011 07:58 AM, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 08:03:43AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> <snip a lot of crap that is ignoring what I've been asking> |
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> Frankly getting fairly annoyed people are immediately taking it to |
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> the rhel/ubuntu extremes- that is *not* what I asked and is frankly |
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> a strawman argument. Occasional pain on upgrades is a given in |
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> gentoo, although anyone claiming we've not kept an eye on those sharp |
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> corners is delusional (versioned eapi, etc-update's very existance, |
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> portage warning on removal of a pkg in the system set, the list goes |
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> on). Hell, even the notification mechanism y'all want to use for |
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> informing is an example of trying to soften those corners were |
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> possible, rather than precluding their existance. |
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> I asked if we had looked at scripting away some of the upgrade pains. |
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This openrc upgrade is the *least* painful Gentoo upgrade I have |
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experienced. What a waste of time (IMO) to "script" some defaults. |
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-Jeremy |
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> It's a pretty simple fucking question requiring either a 5 second |
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> "no" or 5 minutes of "yes, heres what we looked at, they were deemed |
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> too painful". Answering that also is a helluva lot quicker then |
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> people trading barbs over "we need to release it now" or proper SA; |
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> while your retort was dead on for what folks should do, it was |
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> completely unrelated to answering the question I'm *asking*. |
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> If we didn't look into it, that's fine. Means I've got something to |
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> poke at over the weekend. |
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> If we did, and it was ruled out, awesome, I have other things on my |
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> todo list I'll poke at this weekend. |
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> ~harring |