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On Friday 07 July 2006 15:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that |
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> fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things |
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> can be improved in this wonderful distro. |
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> If I have more ideas I'll tell ya. |
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I've got one. MOST packages you can emerge an update, 'merge' your config |
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files using etc-update or something, and everything is happy. |
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But there are many packages that require more to be done. Some of these are |
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more involved (like the X11 7.0 upgrade). Other just require (or strongly |
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suggest) another special tool be run (gcc-config, fix_libtool_files.sh, and I |
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seem to recall others) too. |
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Most of these that require more tend to be 'key' to safe/proper maintenance of |
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the system. |
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I'd like to see an option where certain packages are not upgrade just because |
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they're out of date, but require an additional command line argument. |
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Additionally, a tool that I could run that tells me "the following packages |
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are being 'held back' because a more involved upgrade" - ideally, it would |
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also provide information on what the required steps are. |
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I'm I crazy? |
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David |
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