Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Roman Gaufman <hackeron@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] two remarks on portage-2.0.51-r2
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:36:15
Message-Id: 921ad39e04102305361b2b61ea@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] two remarks on portage-2.0.51-r2 by Roman Gaufman
1 Oh, just to clarify. Using emerge path-to-ebuild always had those side
2 effects and was only intended for developer usage to begin with!
3
4 It isnt something new in .51 -- its just finally a warning was put.
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7 On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:30:45 +0000, Roman Gaufman <hackeron@×××××.com> wrote:
8 > 1) If you dont know how to echo package-name
9 > >>/etc/portage/package.keywords you shouldnt even bother with masked
10 > or hard masked packages.
11 >
12 > 2) Emerging path-to-ebuild doesnt append package to the world file,
13 > thus breaking emerge depclean and emerge -up world. --- Very bad idea
14 > and over long term can seriously break system concistency.
15 >
16 > To maintain the concistency of your system, allowing you to have a
17 > system as clean as when you installed years after, these 2 things
18 > should be avoided at all cost, and thus deprecated and warned highly
19 > against.
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 >
24 > On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:17:15 -0700 (PDT), Pablo De Napoli
25 > <pdenapo@×××××.com> wrote:
26 > > I see that portage-2.0.51-r2 is now stable.
27 > > However, It has some useful features that are deprecated or broken.
28 > >
29 > > 1) emerge --upgradeonly
30 > >
31 > > Why is this deprecated? I think it is endeed a useful feature.
32 > > I'm not sure that the files /etc/portage/package* are a good (esay-to-use)
33 > > replacement for it.
34 > >
35 > > 2) emerge ebuild by path
36 > >
37 > > Acording to the man page, this is broken, however it is the most obvious way
38 > > to specify an ebuild, isn't it?
39 > >
40 > > Why is this feature broken, could anybody find out?
41 > >
42 > > I think is very important to keep the quality of portage to the highest standards, so I
43 > > suggest not to realese as stable a version with important features broken.
44 > >
45 > > Best regards
46 > >
47 > > Pablo De Napoli
48 > >
49 > >
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