On Friday 06 January 2006 06:44, Zac Medico wrote: > > version _after_ the new version has been merged into place. One possible > solution would be to have a special feature that, when enabled, allows > portage to automatically unmerge an old version _before_ the new one is > installed (with protection against unmerging system packages of course). > That is no solution AT ALL!!! What if portage unmerges the package and while compiling the new package it gets into an error? You are left with no installed packages. Even if it is not a system package you can seriously screw your system going this way.
Regards, Abhay
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