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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:00:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> I think you missed an important part of the Gentoo philosophy, that it |
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>> gives you the loaded gun but it's up to you to not point it at your foot. |
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>> Not providing options that could potentially break a system in certain |
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>> circumstances is for a Nanny Distro. Here the ethos is "here's the tool, |
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>> read the man page and don't blame us if you do something stupid". |
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>> Does paludis also refuse to unmerge packages in the system set? |
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> I like the traditional behaviour of portage. When an update fails it tends to |
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> say: |
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> "You asked me to do something. It didn't work; here's the output. Have a look |
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> at it then tell me what to do next. I'm a dumb piece of software, you are the |
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> thinking human so don't expect me to think for you." |
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> A failed emerge is by definition an error, and unpredictable. How can we |
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> expect software to dream up the best solution to an exception? |
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I have used --skipfirst before but I also don't think it is a good |
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idea. For a idiot like me to say that must mean something. I guess it |
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would depend on the package as to whether it could be skipped or not. |
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If I do a emerge -e world, I prefer nothing to fail else what is the point? |
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Later. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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