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On 29/05/2016 11:28, Dale wrote: |
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> Håkon Alstadheim wrote: |
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>> Den 29. mai 2016 03:17, skrev Gregory Woodbury: |
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>>> WOW! |
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>>> Alan just wants to start it and walk away, as if Gentoo was a binary |
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>>> distribution |
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>>> that handles it all upstream. He doesn't want to take the time to |
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>>> review what |
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>>> emerge is proposing and see if changes are needed first. |
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>> It IS actually possible to do that, at least for non-critical systems. |
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>> Just make sure to mail yourself with the emerge output, so you can fix |
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>> things before the next automatic run. |
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>> The point being that you don't have to sit and watch while emerge works. |
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>> You can have the output of any blocks or failures waiting for you in |
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>> your inbox at your convenience. |
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>> For this to work in a timely fashion you need to stay on stable packages |
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>> as much as possible, and also keep other customizations to a minimum, |
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>> e.g. don't use --autounmask-write. |
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> Thing is, that's not what Alan seems to want. Alan wants something like |
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> Ubuntu or something where you tell it to upgrade and then walk away |
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> without checking anything. |
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You are both wrong. What Alan Grimes really wants is an excuse (any |
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excuse) to whine, whinge and bitch about $STUFF. |
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Notice how he never replies to any thread he starts? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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