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On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:22:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Where I get frustrated/ticked off/mad is when some independent |
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> developer, or group of developers, simply decides to remove code on |
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> **MY** machine and force me to make updates without giving me *ANY** |
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> opportunity to make a choice. |
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But they do, as long as you don't leave an unreasonably long time between |
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syncs. emerge --sync warns you when your profile has been deprecated. |
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Your problem is that the delay between syncs was such that you skipped |
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the whole warning period, which should be a LONG time. |
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> I get that the leading-edge developer/gamer mentality cannot get their |
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> heads around having machines run for long, long periods of time - |
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> years - but these machines do. |
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Running a machine for a long time is fine, running it without checking |
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for security updates is not. What's wrong with a weekly cron job that |
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runs emerge --sync and glsa-check and emails you the results? |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Windows didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years |
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of careful development." |
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