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On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 13:01 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> So, what do people think about removing (some) of the special treatment |
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> for the "system" and "world" targets? |
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> Mainly I'm interested in removing the "selective" parameter that's |
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> currently enabled for them (so for example without that parameter |
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> `emerge world` would default to remerging packages, unless --update or |
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> --noreplace are specified). That change has already been requested a |
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> few times in the past by users, but OTOH it could probably upset people |
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> who don't use --update with world/system. |
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What would such a disruptive change really gain us? I personally feel |
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our users need consistency from Gentoo. If they grew up doing |
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'emerge world' and have come to expect that behavior and all of the |
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sudden we change behavior on them.. Yeah I can see how ppl would get |
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upset. Perhaps a less intrusive way would be to introduce another flag |
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to get the specified behavior you are after. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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