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On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:50 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > Well, I often use quickpkg when I want to try a new version of a package |
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> > (I quickpkg the currently installed one.. and I want to keep all the |
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> > config files). Then I emerge the new one, and I absolutely want to be |
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> > able to restore the config files if I want to revert to an older |
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> > version, either because they have been broken by the pkg_postinst or |
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> > something else. I still haven't heard a good reason to change anything |
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> > thats not the printing in quickpkg. |
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> i didnt say i was going to be disallowing this, i said i'd be making it no |
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> longer the default behavior ... what you want to do will still be perfectly |
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> possible |
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Is quickpkg a candidate for FEATURES? I'd much prefer this be able to |
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be controlled by a configuration file (and overridden on the command |
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line) so I don't have to remember to put --iamsureidontcareaboutsecurity |
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or whatever on the command line every time. |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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