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> What is bad about doing *only* `emerge --sync` and security updates? |
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Nothing, however if they have been doing security only updates, I think |
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that their install won't be *too* far behind the stable tree. Besides, |
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at some point old ebuilds are completely removed from portage anyway, |
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and therefore there is no support for those versions if somebody tries |
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to submit a bug. This is really getting into a whole different |
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discussion altogether about having a security update only tree, but |
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there has been talk of this a few times before...search the mailing list |
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archives. |
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> This is not my case so it's quite possible that no such users exist (so |
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> the gentoo-dev ml isn't probably the best place to ask if they exist, |
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> btw), but if you do something that will prevent *everyone* who is so |
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> "late with upgrades" from continuing, you'll introduce (IMHO dangerous) |
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> precedence about backward compatibility. |
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Removing old profiles will do nothing other than forcing them to set a |
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new profile. Changing the profile won't stop people from doing security |
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only updates. |
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-Steve |
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