On 06/30/2012 11:33 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Samstag 30 Juni 2012, 13:22:39 schrieb Zac Medico: >> On 06/30/2012 04:07 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> I would like to discuss a bit more issues like: >>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=423087 >>> >>> Even if there are "a lot" of packages that can cause this breakage when >>> downgraded, I think it should be prevented and package managers >>> shouldn't try to downgrade this kind of packages as they will later >>> cause a total breakage. People is not supposed to know that downgrading >>> some package system will, for example, have an unusable gcc. >> >> It seems like a die in pkg_pretend would serve pretty well. > > As a comparatively simple, user-oriented workaround, since this only happens > at downgrades and these should be pretty rare, I have the following > suggestion: > > Make a portage feature that is **on by default**, which causes portage to > generate a binpkg of the version to be unmerged, in the case of a downgrade. > > Rationale: > * if you know what you are doing, you can switch this off easily > * does not take much space since downgrades are rare > * should help our users a lot, whenever someone accidentally or not-knowingly > downgrades something critical. > > Thoughts?
I like that idea. I've filed this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424275 -- Thanks, Zac
