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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:26:10 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> > Manual means manually added to the list by python-updater, rather than |
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>> > using any sort of detection. |
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>> OK, I won't bother with the many definitions of the word manual or how |
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>> that effects the conversation from my end 'cause that don't matter |
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>> much to Linux man-page writers. ;-) |
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> I agree that describing an automated default as manual is somewhat less |
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> than intuitive... |
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Yep. Generously I'd say they meant something like 'from a manual of |
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known apps', etc., but clearly other words like 'list' might have been |
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more intuitive, at least to me. |
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>> However I'm still failing to see |
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>> the interest in this as it only removes 1 or 4 packages (boost) that |
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>> I've rebuilt multiple time. 75% of the failures still fail using |
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>> -dmanual. |
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>> c2stable ~ # python-updater -p -dmanual |
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>> * Starting Python Updater... |
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>> * Main active version of Python: 2.7 |
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>> * Active version of Python 2: 2.7 |
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>> * Active version of Python 3: 3.1 |
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>> * Adding to list: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0 |
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>> * Adding to list: app-emulation/virtualbox:0 |
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>> * Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0 |
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>> * Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0 |
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> I've also been hit by the first, as I think I mentioned. As for the other |
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> two, re-emerging a binary package won't help at all, because it's a binary |
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> package, so you unpack it rather than rebuild it. That's more a problem |
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> with using binary packages on a source distro than a fault of |
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> python-updater itself. |
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Understood and agreed. For OO I couldn't quite get up the interest to |
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start building from scratch though. Something like 450MB of things to |
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download and then what, do it again in a week or two? Not worth it for |
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my needs. |
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Thanks for all the insights. I do appreciate your inputs. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |