Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Breaking up the beast known as app-games

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>]

Just to make it clear, I also think a tree reorganisation is needed and
there has been some good ideas here (my preference goes to the flat
repository with multiple informative categories inside ebuilds, as
proposed by Jean Jordaan). My point is only that this is something that
has to be thought early enough to avoid forgeting any user when it
comes real.


On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 00:17:29 +0000
Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Would it be possible to require a real user to run the 'emerge world'
> and say "yes" to a question? 

If "emerge world" still works after the tree reorganisation, then there
is no backward compatibility issue. But it doesn't seem so obvious to
me: with many of the solution suggested so far, a current portage would
not even pass the dep caching that comes after the sync.

> If stdin cannot be opened (cron job), send root@localhost a mail.

Doesn't change the fact that the best a current version portage can do
is to inform you that a new version is available. If I do my next sync
in six month in my 486 gateway because of a new openssh bug, I shouldn't
be blocked only because I've ignored this information. 

> Having two trees would require every package change to be done on each
> tree... Just as complex, I'd think.

There would be no need to maintain the old tree, but only to keep
something that is enough for people to make the transition (at least 
new portage and his deps). This plus a mechanism to force portage
upgrade when really needed would be enough.

-- 
TGL.

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