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Am Freitag 08 August 2014, 17:12:27 schrieb Igor: |
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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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/me is thinking: |
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Your caps lock key is broken and about the content: man portage || use linux |
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from scratch |
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Johannes Huber (johu) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer / KDE Team |
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