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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:22:19
Message-Id: 4F01F564.4010204@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior by Michael Mol
1 On 01/02/12 13:07, Michael Mol wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On 01/02/12 12:45, Michael Mol wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> I hope you don't take this as a kind of disrespect, but this really
6 >>> feels more like administrator error than tool error. As someone else
7 >>> remarked, it's portage's job to do what you tell it to do; you point
8 >>> the gun, pull the trigger, it delivers the projectile.
9 >>>
10 >>
11 >> I don't -- I've admitted this was user error a number of times.
12 >>
13 >> Old behavior: user error has no consequences.
14 >> New behavior: user error permanently breaks your world file.
15 >
16 > I missed where this was new behavior. Being that this will be the 56th
17 > message in this thread, though, I'm not particularly inclined to go
18 > back and hunt for it. >.>
19 >
20
21 It used to work the way I want it to, for years. That's partly why I
22 can't remember to add --oneshot to emerge -uN.