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From: Edward Catmur <ed@×××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Masking practics
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:18:00
Message-Id: 1154956282.20668.90.camel@capella.catmur.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Masking practics by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 15:01 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > Lets say, if I've, installed foo-1.1, and it gets masked due
3 > some bug(s), but 1.0 isn't, I want to get informed with an big
4 > fat warning, *before* anything actually done, ie.
5 >
6 > [...]
7 > # WARNING: installed package foo-1.1 has been masked and would
8 > # be downgraded:
9 > # <masking comment ...>
10 > [...]
11 >
12 > An fully-automatic downgrade should *never* downgrade anything.
13 > This is too dangerous, because essential features can get lost.
14 > Again, my bugzilla example: assuming 2.22 will be unmasked some
15 > day and I installed it w/ postgres support. Now there are some
16 > bugs found, but not fixed fast enough, so it gets masked.
17 > I run an update w/o knowing that it downgrades, and my whole
18 > bugzilla hosting is suddenly broken.
19
20 That would not happen. bugzilla is a webapp and as such is fully
21 SLOTted. Upgrades (and downgrades) are manual.
22
23 Ed
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