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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:41:04 +0100 Grobian <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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| Remember that there are packages in the tree that satisfy the |
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| preemptive requirement, since they simply die when trying to upgrade |
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| and a certain amount of prerequisites is not met. This prevents the |
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| user from losing data files or making them inaccesible, while at the |
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| same pointing out what needs to be done and why, using a short |
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| message. |
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Yick! We really really really don't want to do that. A die in an ebuild |
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would ideally only be triggered for unexpected build errors caused by |
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things like the user running out of disk space. Getting hit by a die |
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on something you've left to run overnight is a real nuisance. |
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As it stands, we have a few unfortunate situations (built_with_use) |
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where it's currently necessary to do premeditated dies, but the aim is |
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to reduce these (eg by adding foo[bar] deps to portage), not add in |
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even more. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Anti-XML, anti-newbie conspiracy) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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