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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Nicholas Jones wrote: |
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>> skipit: Emerde allows you to skip to the next merge with the |
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>> SIGINT signal or by pressing CTRL+c. |
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> This probably isn't a good idea. It's liable to break 'automatic' |
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> configurations that the ebuild expects to be satisfied in a |
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> particular way. Do you use this often? |
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If done properly, this would be very useful. By properly, I mean that |
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aborting a dependency would abort all following packages that depended |
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upon this. If all remaining packages are dependent upon it, this is no |
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change from the current behavior. However, if many packages are |
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specified on the command-line, this is unlikely for the first |
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interruption (of course, if that's on glibc, it becomes much more |
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likely.) |
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Note that the ideal solution would not abort a future package if the |
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package directly aborted is a reinstall or upgrade, and the already |
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installed version satisfies the dependency of the future package. |
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Of course, it sounds like he didn't do this, from his responses to |
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questions about this item. I believe that it'd require a fair amount of |
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work to pull it off efficiently. |
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Ed |
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