On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:50 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Well, I often use quickpkg when I want to try a new version of a package
> > (I quickpkg the currently installed one.. and I want to keep all the
> > config files). Then I emerge the new one, and I absolutely want to be
> > able to restore the config files if I want to revert to an older
> > version, either because they have been broken by the pkg_postinst or
> > something else. I still haven't heard a good reason to change anything
> > thats not the printing in quickpkg.
> 
> i didnt say i was going to be disallowing this, i said i'd be making it no 
> longer the default behavior ... what you want to do will still be perfectly 
> possible

Is quickpkg a candidate for FEATURES?  I'd much prefer this be able to
be controlled by a configuration file (and overridden on the command
line) so I don't have to remember to put --iamsureidontcareaboutsecurity
or whatever on the command line every time.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation