On 02/09/04  Ixion wrote:

> I second that! I've been doing 'emerge -u world's on my web server at
> home and the fileservers here at work, and like Mark, do not feel
> comfortable with this. I also don't have a lot of time to dig around
> and find out why there was an update (unless there's an easy way to do
> this??).
> 
> I think 'emerge -u -L1 world' is an awesome idea! :)

But not really possible to implement as the importance is rather
subjective and dependant on the context. Example:

foo-1.0.1 is a trivial update to foo-1.0.0
foo-1.0.2 is a trivial update to foo-1.0.1

now is foo-1.0.2 also a trivial update to foo-1.0.0 ?
You'd have to define the importance against all previous versions or
find a very intelligent algorithm that makes everyone happy.
Also who should define the importance ? The ebuild maintainer might have
a different opinion about what's important than you (not to mention that
it just adds one more piece of information that has to be maintained).

Marius

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