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On Friday 06 January 2006 06:44, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> version _after_ the new version has been merged into place. One possible |
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> solution would be to have a special feature that, when enabled, allows |
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> portage to automatically unmerge an old version _before_ the new one is |
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> installed (with protection against unmerging system packages of course). |
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That is no solution AT ALL!!! What if portage unmerges the package and while |
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compiling the new package it gets into an error? You are left with no |
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installed packages. Even if it is not a system package you can seriously |
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screw your system going this way. |
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Regards, |
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Abhay |
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