Re: [gentoo-dev] Wishlist: an automated package upgrade system with fine-tunable sysadmin control

2006-04-26 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On 4/26/06, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I really want is to make the process of maintaining Gentoo boxes over the long term easier (IOW: less time-consuming) than is now true, by adding some functionality that AFAICT does not now exist which would allow me to automate some things,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for testing

2005-12-24 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On 12/24/05, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:09:36 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, Peter wrote: THAT is a very reasonable comment! Not at all. Meta ebuilds are a provisional and fugly workaround as long as we have to wait for

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Bugzilla Bug 112779: New and Improved Way to Handle /etc/portage

2005-11-17 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On 11/17/05, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, basically, you want to have multiple directories that the traditional /etc/portage inherits from. This would provide a way to separate local profile settings into groups and organize them (more effectively than the current use of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Strange update world output

2005-05-16 Thread Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
On 5/16/05, Paul Waring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/05, Kevin F. Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try emerge -puDvt world, which will give you the list in an indented tree format useful for determining what pulled in the packages you don't want. I think I've found out what the problem