From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:56:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070103085628.1cadd4f1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701030022020.20138@iabervon.org>
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 00:45:00 -0500 (EST), Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> Perhaps it just needs to be more popular, or maybe it needs to
> understand slots better (in order to be popular). I know that all of
> the kernels I install tell me that support for devfs was removed long
> before the oldest kernel available in portage as of when I installed
> the machine.
File a bug, the ebuild shouldn't be reporting this if it is unnecessary or
confusing.
> It also doesn't look like it's something where it would be able to
> choose to upgrade postfix 2.2.10 to 2.2.10-r1 instead of to 2.3.5
> because 2.3.5 would require help and 2.2.10-r1 is automatic.
This is Gentoo, you are supposed to make those sort of decisions for
yourself. Automatic updates go against the "the admin is in control"
ethos.
--
Neil Bothwick
Bang on the LEFT side of your computer to restart Windows
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-25 1:52 [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage? Mike Myers
2006-12-24 14:29 ` david
2006-12-25 3:01 ` Mike Myers
2006-12-25 6:36 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2006-12-25 8:46 ` Mike Myers
2006-12-25 9:06 ` Dale
2006-12-25 10:48 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2006-12-25 12:11 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-12-25 12:04 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-12-25 20:09 ` Mike Myers
2006-12-26 0:17 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-12-26 4:41 ` Mike Myers
2006-12-26 13:28 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-12-25 20:15 ` Richard Fish
2006-12-25 20:34 ` Mike Myers
2006-12-26 15:56 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2006-12-26 20:02 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-12-27 9:45 ` Mike Myers
2006-12-27 22:14 ` James
2006-12-27 22:43 ` Mike Myers
2006-12-31 12:18 ` Aniruddha
2006-12-31 13:40 ` Mick
2006-12-31 16:02 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-12-31 18:20 ` Mick
2006-12-31 18:57 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner
2006-12-31 20:50 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-12-31 20:48 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-12-31 23:29 ` Mike Myers
2007-01-01 1:01 ` Mike Myers
2007-01-01 1:34 ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-01-01 2:27 ` Mark Knecht
2007-01-01 2:36 ` Mike Myers
2007-01-01 1:40 ` Neil Walker
2007-01-01 2:34 ` Mike Myers
2007-01-01 10:36 ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-01-02 10:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-01 20:08 ` Aniruddha
2007-01-02 6:50 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-02 9:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-03 5:45 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-03 8:56 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-01-03 21:02 ` Daniel Barkalow
[not found] ` <20070104084454.261923bc@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
2007-01-04 10:20 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-02 10:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-03 5:21 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-03 7:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-03 18:24 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-03 23:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-06 6:43 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-06 14:11 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-01-03 8:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-03 11:03 ` Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D)
2007-01-03 11:42 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-01-03 11:51 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-03 13:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-03 20:29 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-01-02 9:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-01-04 8:43 ` Mike Myers
2007-01-01 2:45 ` William Kenworthy
2007-01-01 4:35 ` Richard Fish
2007-01-01 5:58 ` William Kenworthy
2007-01-02 11:19 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-02 13:26 ` William Kenworthy
2007-01-03 13:52 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-01 10:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-02 18:28 ` Andrey Gerasimenko
2006-12-31 22:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Aniruddha
2007-01-01 1:49 ` Neil Walker
2006-12-31 22:20 ` Aniruddha
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