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Hi, |
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About 60% of all the packages are installed and work with nodep flag |
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without any problems for years. Most of the maintainers just depend on new |
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packages not knowing if it's necessary or not resulting in a really HUGE |
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update that in the absolute majority of cases destabilize GENTOO making it |
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not operational and WORSE than it was before. You then STABILIZE it again |
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spending hours and then the story repeats itself. |
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Experience show that out of 20 new dependencies pulled by |
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emerge only 1 is critical and really needed to assemble the target. |
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Is there any option in emerge to pull MINIMUM packages to |
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get the result - install the application you need, leaving everything else |
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AS IS untouched and stable? |
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I would rather prefer and many would agree to use this kind of |
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install instead of a full system update by default. |
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Is there any USE flag that can switch system to this kind of update instead |
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of conventional? If no such USE flag, what about stabilize gentoo with |
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STABILIZED flag implementation in make.conf? |
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Whoever needs everything new - can continue fighting with nature, |
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the rest of us who has a limited life span - well, they might go for |
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STABILIZED flag and live happily ever after. |
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What do you think? |
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Best regards, |
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Igor mailto:lanthruster@×××××.com |
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