Neil Bothwick wrote: > Telling people never to use --deep is as misleading as telling > them always to use it. The only correct advice is to help people > decide for themselves when to use it and when not.
Hmm. When to use it then, and when not? Either the user follows gentoo-announce and runs the adviced emerges manually, without ever using --deep; or she uses --deep on a regular basis and can't see the difference between a security update and a normal bugfix. It would be better if emerge could somehow show this difference with a ! or something. Because running 'emerge --deep --changelog -u world -p' produces too much irrelevant information to be useful. And glsa-check is a bit unwieldy: 'glsa-check -ln 2>/dev/null | grep '\[N\]' | cut -d\ -f1 | xargs -n1 glsa-check -d'. Plus, the results can be confusing as it thinks mplayer-1.0.20060415 is newer than mplayer-1.0_pre8. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
