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Very good point. Gentoo developers are doing enough as it is |
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maintaining/developing the best distro ever created. I just thought I'd |
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give the idea some praise. /me returns to the changelogs. :) |
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Btw, Christian's suggestion helps a ton. I didn't know that switch |
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existed. Guess I need to pay more attention to the man pages. ;) |
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> On 02/09/04 Ixion wrote: |
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>> I second that! I've been doing 'emerge -u world's on my web server at |
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>> home and the fileservers here at work, and like Mark, do not feel |
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>> comfortable with this. I also don't have a lot of time to dig around |
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>> and find out why there was an update (unless there's an easy way to do |
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>> this??). |
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>> I think 'emerge -u -L1 world' is an awesome idea! :) |
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> But not really possible to implement as the importance is rather |
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> subjective and dependant on the context. Example: |
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> foo-1.0.1 is a trivial update to foo-1.0.0 |
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> foo-1.0.2 is a trivial update to foo-1.0.1 |
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> now is foo-1.0.2 also a trivial update to foo-1.0.0 ? |
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> You'd have to define the importance against all previous versions or |
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> find a very intelligent algorithm that makes everyone happy. |
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> Also who should define the importance ? The ebuild maintainer might have |
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> a different opinion about what's important than you (not to mention that |
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> it just adds one more piece of information that has to be maintained). |
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> Marius |
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> Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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> In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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> Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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