Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Nick Dimiduk <ndimiduk@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Hello
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:26:32
Message-Id: 416C4C03.3010406@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Hello by ashish gawarikar
1 ashish gawarikar wrote:
2 > The advantage of doing this is viz:
3 >
4 > 1. QA has to test one huge download and dont have to test different
5 > scenarios.
6 > 2. You exactly know what packages you are getting in this download
7 > 3. You have to issue one-and-only-one command for upgrade
8 >
9
10 Why not script emerge commands together? Once the packages are
11 installed, they will easily be updated along with the rest of the system
12 with an `emerge world`. This way the packages and their deps are all
13 accounted for.
14
15 -Nick Dimiduk
16
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