On Wednesday 27 July 2005 22:19, Alec Joseph Warner wrote: > Gentoo is a distribution and there is some responsibility to provide users > upgrade paths when packages switch versions. Gentoo isn't just portage, > IMHO.
Perhaps the first thing you've ever said that I've agreed with right off the bat. ;) The average system would probably have about five new updatable packages every single day. Shouldn't users expect that upgrading them is not going to break things? Isn't that the whole point of ~arch? Excluding the cases where breakage is due to not updating config files, any breakage that may happen from upgrading that can't be dealt with within the limits of an ebuild really must be disseminated(sp?) to the users. -- Jason Stubbs
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