Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> schrieb:

<snip>

> > # WARNING: installed package foo-1.1 has been masked and would # be
> > downgraded:
> > # <masking comment ...>
> > [...]
>
> That's precisely what emerge --pretend --verbose covers.  Or, if you want
> the display with a question to continue or not, use --ask instead of
> --verbose.

Ah, emerge actually tells you that it's going to *downgrade*
(not just printing out two version numbers and letting the user 
compare each packege's version number for its own) ?

> A good Gentoo user (read that as a good system administrator, because
> that's exactly what a Gentoo distribution user is in this context) will
> never run a straight "fully automatic" upgrade/downgrade, without knowing
> exactly what's going to be done, because that's foolhardy, as you
> correctly point out.  They will always know what to expect, because they
> will have either used --pretend first, or will use --ask as a matter of
> course.

Of course I always use -p, but having to look at each package's 
version numbers if it someday may want to downgrade. For such number
comparison, humans are not the best processor, the computer is 
far much better for it.

Why can't emerge just print out an fat warning if its going to
downgrade ? Would save people from much, much trouble.


cu
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