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I agree with this. However, a certain amount of responsibility must reside with each individual user.
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I believe that an environment variable or Gentoo specific variable which allowed a user to specify whether they were a "newbie/intermediate/competent/developer/guru" et cetera user. Then the appropriate downloads / compiles would not only be based on the portage tree (I'm a newbie to Gentoo so bear with me); but also by the category of user. The user could then change / override this user value as they progressed in experience.
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cheers
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wayne
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perth, western australia
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> David Chamberlain <david@×××××××××××××××.com> gentoo-dev@g.o [gentoo-dev] Use of --update: suggestionReply-To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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>Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:46:17 +0000 |
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>I have a suggestion which might at least avoid some of the complaints |
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>the libpng issue has generated. The idea might have been mentioned |
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>before, but if so, I think it bears repeating. |
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>The problem seems to be that many people don't quite understand what |
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>they're getting with Gentoo - in particular, that it's up to them to |
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>decide whether or not to upgrade fully functional software and risk |
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>breaking their system. The ideas about stability levels etc. have some |
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>merit, but it won't fix that basic problem. So, I strongly suggest |
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>modifying the --upgrade command so that it behaves like unmerge - i.e. |
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>it asks the user if they really want to go ahead. --update world |
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>should be forced to act like --pretend, so that the user has to see |
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>what's going to be upgraded, and has to at least click enter once to |
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>set the upgrade in motion. There could be a flag in make.conf that |
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>power users could set to skip all this, but the default would be to ask |
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>for confirmation. The message might be something like this: |
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>The following packages will be upgraded by this command: |
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>sys-libs/verydangerouslib |
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>x11-wm/sillywm |
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>Please understand that the latest release of any software package can |
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>contain bugs or compatibility problems that might damage your system; |
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>if you do not have to upgrade, you might want to reconsider. You can |
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>always upgrade individual packages to a trusted version by using a |
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>command like "emerge |
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>/usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/xfree-4.1.0-r6.ebuild". |
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>SO: are you sure you want to proceed? [Y n]" |
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