From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FJ7JG-0006zV-RH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:03:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2EB2kUm018041; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:02:46 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2EB2jeS020820 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:02:45 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.195]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FJ7Ia-0004xC-JS for gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:02:44 +0000 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x4so1091192nfb for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:02:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=ZK2zfIWUXI4V02m488u0DSEyv2wwac3YZ4ISr6S/vGGN9CCbvdw6Aq0bshBfJBNqixL9JRydQr1Em7T1cVQxiC7nRJuThRKwzVE45SKEoaRGjyWP61GPi5zCH5ienrr7qIhRZOpMuWqa+VCAVGBhKqKtsBwicd6tCuT9SOi6TdA= Received: by 10.48.226.13 with SMTP id y13mr1369827nfg; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:02:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.29.4 with HTTP; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:02:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:02:40 +0200 From: tvali To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Few things, which imho would make portage better 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 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_15211_6004091.1142334160848" X-Archives-Salt: 73c118d5-1f38-4f49-95b9-c917955af1cb X-Archives-Hash: 2ea55d3f5afd4dfc38ab58743c7b0837 ------=_Part_15211_6004091.1142334160848 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I think that it would make things more clear and simple if portage did support the following (maybe some are already included, but not found by me): * Add package to "world" checking all dependencies, but not emerging * Remove package from "world" without unmerging * Save all important messages into file instead of beeping (i may be away from home); optionally replay them at end of update * When updating or installing new package, if something goes wrong, still emerge other packages, which havent failed packages as dependencies -- in m= y case, for example, when i do --update, for example, then the fact that update of first package fails does not definitely mean that i dont want to update others -- tvali (e-mail: "qtvali@gmail.com"; msn: "qtvali@gmail.com"; icq: "317-492-912") =DChe eesti internetifirma lehel kohtasin tsitaati: If you don't do it excellently, dont do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing here? Robert Townsend ------=_Part_15211_6004091.1142334160848 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I think that it would make things more clear and simple if portage did support the following (maybe some are already included, but not found by me):

* Add package to "world" checking all dependencies, but not emerg= ing
* Remove package from "world" without unmerging
* Save all important messages into file instead of beeping (i may be away f= rom home); optionally replay them at end of update
* When updating or installing new package, if something goes wrong, still emerge other packages, which havent failed packages as dependencies -- in my case, for example, when i do --update, for example, then the fact that update of first package fails does not definitely mean that i dont want to update others

-- <= br>tvali
(e-mail: "qtvali@gmail= .com"; msn: "qtvali@gmail= .com ";
icq: "317-492-912")

=DChe eesti internetifi= rma lehel kohtasin tsitaati:
If you don't do it excellently, dont do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing here?
Robert Townsend ------=_Part_15211_6004091.1142334160848-- -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list