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On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 23:58, Geert Bevin wrote: |
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> > While unmerge functionality is still in testing, I propose that we rename |
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> > --safe to --old or similar. IMO it' makes a lot more sense, since unmerging |
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> > without --safe isn't unsafe, it's just different. |
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> Well both make sense to me since --safe ensures that the system |
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> continues to work as it did before the unmerge by not removing any |
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> functionalities. With -old you have the possible misunderstanding about |
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> what old mean. Is it the package revision number or related to the last |
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> installed package. With unmerge, the latter applies. Of course if most |
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> devs vote for --old we'll change ;-) |
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Im more just for the more lazy 'unmerge' option. |
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In the --safe/--old issue .. i tend to agree with Vitaly that |
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it should rather be --force to force a unmerge of all. Just |
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blindly merging stuff usually do not break things .... |
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unmerging do though, and if you have the time for user |
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support ... ;) |
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> Geert Bevin |
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> "Use what you need" Pierre Theunisstraat 1/47 |
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