El jue, 25-11-2021 a las 09:20 -0500, Mike Gilbert escribió [...] > I don't like the phrase "forcefully downgraded" here. This implies > > > that something happened without the user's consent. emerge would have > > > informed them of the downgrade before it happened. I would suggest > > > removing the word "forcefully" from these paragraphs. > > > > If you do a normal world upgrade, this is the default portage behavior, > > not? I.e. package manager will downgrade if you don't stop. And > > especially on servers, people tend to use cronjobs/scripts to do that... > > Something happening by default is not the same as forcing it to happen. > > Using a cron job or other blind automation to do package upgrades on > any production system is a bad idea. We certainly do not recommend > that to people, nor force them to do it. > >
As a side note, maybe ebuild should add sanity checks (like those from glibc) to prevent downgrades, otherwise people could still accidentally hit the issue Thanks
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