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On 2019.01.24 15:17, Michael Jones wrote: |
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> A lot of people run emerge without checking the preliminary console |
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> output. |
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But most (I hope) of them understand the possible problems, and are |
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willing to "pick up the pieces" if something goes wrong. Most of them |
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do not blame the Gentoo developers in such a case. |
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> I don't think it's fair to imply that doing that is somehow wrong. |
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Some/many of us might disagree. If you don't check the output to see |
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exactly what emerge is going to do, it may well not do what you |
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want/expect. Is it "wrong" to drive your car with a blindfold on? |
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> The vast majority of Linux distributions support unattended upgrades |
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> without a second thought. |
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The vast majority of Linux distributions are binary distributions, |
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where a package either works or not, and if it doesn't, it is very |
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likely a packaging error. The vast majority of Linux distributions do |
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not install from source, with lots of ways of configuring things to the |
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user's liking, many of which possible configurations will not work. I |
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would say that binary distributions are much more deterministic in |
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their behavior. You really can't run Gentoo safely for very long |
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without paying close attention to what you are doing - with both |
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installs and upgrades. |
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Jack |
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