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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:53:57
Message-Id: 20081031145349.67d1536c@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:37:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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3 > I wonder why emerge doesn't do something like this by default,
4 > actually. Say a package has a serious exploit and an update was made.
5 > If the package isn't in world, emerge will never grab the update.
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7 If it's not is world, or a dependency of a world package, it's not needed
8 and --depclean will catch it.
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12 Neil Bothwick
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14 IBM - I Blame Microsoft

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