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On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:39:41PM +0100 or thereabouts, Martin Hajduch wrote: |
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> above versions work for you |
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> what if someone needs higher version of libxml or libxslt because of |
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> cooperation with other products ? |
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They could either a) wait for the next update in X months or b) put it in |
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an overlay |
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> in my humble opinion, it would be better (for my purposes) to have more |
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> 'user friendly' way of configuring which packages and under which |
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> circumstances i want to update (or get a notification about an important |
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> update) when i do emerge -u world |
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> some kind of configurable filtering with possibility to do |
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> customizations also on per-package level |
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Can you elaborate on how you see this working? Not sure I understand. |
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Again, try to focus on requirements instead of implementation. |
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> i really don't mind spending several days setting all these things up if |
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> it means that the next 3 months or more i can just regularly do emerge |
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> -u (or whatever else) to get all updates i need and skip the rest |
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> in the fact, having such configuration possibilities, i call it |
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> 'customized portage profile'; the idea of 'frozen tree' or 'quarterly |
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> updates' can be achieved by preconfigured profiles -> they will take |
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> care of installing preselected version of packages |
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OK, but you can do this today with the features already in portage. You |
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can create your own custom profiles and nail specific versions of packages |
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while still allowing others to track against the tree. What additional |
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requirements do you have that aren't currently offered? |
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--kurt |
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