[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: how thorough is #emerge --sync?

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Darren Kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>:

> Quoth the Alexander Skwar
> 
>> Darren, on the other hand, seems to have
>> some misunderstanding about how portage works.
> 
> Stop being so bloody obtuse and read my response to Willie. I know perfectly 
> well how portage works. I am taking issues with your vague responses which 
> are open to several interpretations.

No, they are not. I said, that it is unreasonable to expect, that
emerge should offer a version other than 0.8 of dir2ogg, as that's
the latest stable. Or rather, I asked maxim why he thinks, that
a version, other than the latest stable (ie. 0.8), should be
offered.

> You would be well served by writing a clear and concise response

I did. If you try to interprete it somehow and you get it wrong,
than I'm terribly sorry for that, but that's just not my problem.

> rather than  
> another open-ended question if you want to get your point accross.

My point is, that emerge offers, by default, to install the latest
stable version. I wanted to make maxim think about why he expects
a different version.

>> Just because there's
>> a newer version of some program out there in the wild, doesn't mean,
>> that it'll be available to emerge/portage through some sort of magic.
> 
> That's certainly not what I think,

I didn't say so, did I?


Alexander Skwar
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