On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:00:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I think you missed an important part of the Gentoo philosophy, that it > gives you the loaded gun but it's up to you to not point it at your foot. > Not providing options that could potentially break a system in certain > circumstances is for a Nanny Distro. Here the ethos is "here's the tool, > read the man page and don't blame us if you do something stupid". > > Does paludis also refuse to unmerge packages in the system set?
I like the traditional behaviour of portage. When an update fails it tends to say: "You asked me to do something. It didn't work; here's the output. Have a look at it then tell me what to do next. I'm a dumb piece of software, you are the thinking human so don't expect me to think for you." A failed emerge is by definition an error, and unpredictable. How can we expect software to dream up the best solution to an exception? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
