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On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:59:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Personally, I think portage has gone too far and the complex solutions |
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> are causing problems that are worse than what they attempt to solve. |
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> Amzing solutions (like sub-slots) aren't really much use in the real |
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> world if the package maintainers use them incorrectly, right? |
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> Well that's my 2c. |
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> I was quite happy with revdep-rebuild |
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I wasn't because it relied on your system being broken before it could do |
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anything useful. @preserved-rebuild on the other hand was a perfectly |
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acceptable solution. It didn't break things but kept them working until |
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you could re-emerge the affected packages at a time t suit. Sub-slots are |
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not only complex, they force rebuilds of packages at a time of their |
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choosing, not mine. I'd rather not put all my other updates on hold |
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because sub-slots decide that e-emerging the current versions of |
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libreoffice and chromium is more important (thanks icu!). |
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Neil Bothwick |
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There is never enough beer, sex or disk space! |
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