From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ija1W-0004OG-5p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:35:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9LCNmq4017876; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:23:48 GMT Received: from homeless.linbsd.net (homeless.linbsd.net [64.127.112.66]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9LCNltK017871 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:23:47 GMT Received: from [66.92.11.131] (dsl092-011-131.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.11.131]) by homeless.linbsd.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F1E57828 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:23:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] About "system" and "world" From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20071021130154.01c1da9c@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> References: <20071021130154.01c1da9c@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:23:45 -0700 Message-Id: <1192969425.7675.7.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d51cc46b-9c3b-44cd-973c-b67ac6097e67 X-Archives-Hash: 756f5cc347d091dc66271eafca8f676b On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 13:01 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > So, what do people think about removing (some) of the special treatment > for the "system" and "world" targets? > Mainly I'm interested in removing the "selective" parameter that's > currently enabled for them (so for example without that parameter > `emerge world` would default to remerging packages, unless --update or > --noreplace are specified). That change has already been requested a > few times in the past by users, but OTOH it could probably upset people > who don't use --update with world/system. What would such a disruptive change really gain us? I personally feel our users need consistency from Gentoo. If they grew up doing 'emerge world' and have come to expect that behavior and all of the sudden we change behavior on them.. Yeah I can see how ppl would get upset. Perhaps a less intrusive way would be to introduce another flag to get the specified behavior you are after. -- Ned Ludd -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list