On 29/05/2016 11:28, Dale wrote: > Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >> Den 29. mai 2016 03:17, skrev Gregory Woodbury: >>> WOW! >>> >>> Alan just wants to start it and walk away, as if Gentoo was a binary >>> distribution >>> that handles it all upstream. He doesn't want to take the time to >>> review what >>> emerge is proposing and see if changes are needed first. >>> >> It IS actually possible to do that, at least for non-critical systems. >> Just make sure to mail yourself with the emerge output, so you can fix >> things before the next automatic run. >> >> The point being that you don't have to sit and watch while emerge works. >> You can have the output of any blocks or failures waiting for you in >> your inbox at your convenience. >> >> For this to work in a timely fashion you need to stay on stable packages >> as much as possible, and also keep other customizations to a minimum, >> e.g. don't use --autounmask-write. >> > > Thing is, that's not what Alan seems to want. Alan wants something like > Ubuntu or something where you tell it to upgrade and then walk away > without checking anything.
You are both wrong. What Alan Grimes really wants is an excuse (any excuse) to whine, whinge and bitch about $STUFF. Notice how he never replies to any thread he starts? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
