[gentoo-portage-dev] feature suggestions

[Hanno Fietz]

Here's a suggestion for two portage features that I would appreciate.
Please tell me if this is the wrong list.

I would like to have a system where ebuilds are classified such that
when updating a package, I can tell whether this is a security patch or
critical bugfix or new feature release or whatever. Thus, I could set up
automatic updates that check only for critical patches and do not
install every tiny new fancy thing.

Also, a system would be nice, where authors of a package or the ebuild
maintainers could supply a message to the user along with the ebuild,
for example to warn them of massive numbers of reverse dependencies that
are going to be broken by the update (-> libexpat! I would have chosen a
different time for the update if I had known what I had to update after
that).

Best regards
Hanno
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