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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> Telling people never to use --deep is as misleading as telling |
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> them always to use it. The only correct advice is to help people |
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> decide for themselves when to use it and when not. |
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Hmm. When to use it then, and when not? Either the user follows |
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gentoo-announce and runs the adviced emerges manually, without ever |
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using --deep; or she uses --deep on a regular basis and can't see |
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the difference between a security update and a normal bugfix. |
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It would be better if emerge could somehow show this difference with |
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a ! or something. Because running 'emerge --deep --changelog -u |
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world -p' produces too much irrelevant information to be useful. |
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And glsa-check is a bit unwieldy: 'glsa-check -ln 2>/dev/null | |
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grep '\[N\]' | cut -d\ -f1 | xargs -n1 glsa-check -d'. Plus, the |
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results can be confusing as it thinks mplayer-1.0.20060415 is newer |
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than mplayer-1.0_pre8. |
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Benno |
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