From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LlMED-0001BX-7a for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:52:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DF72E0807; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5187CE0807 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AF4FB24A92 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:52:30 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:52:24 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? Message-ID: <20090322115224.4863026f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090322113750.GC4834@ca.inter.net> References: <200903211917.56523.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> <20090322065857.GA4834@ca.inter.net> <20090322082617.01de615d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20090322113750.GC4834@ca.inter.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs22 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/6nt9bsV0g/vo3loODvzulwZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 07f17143-9cfc-475b-bf39-4099491b264e X-Archives-Hash: 92c781784041c53b76be61f174c403e2 --Sig_/6nt9bsV0g/vo3loODvzulwZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:37:50 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 090322 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I hope you use --oneshot every time > > or your world file will be a complete mess by now :( >=20 > Yes, there's always someone who says that (grin). I wouldn't want to disappoint you :) > Of course, it's 2nd nature to check for 'W' or 'S' in my list > & if the pkg has neither, make sure to 'emerge -1 '. I just use -1 whenever I re-emerge anything, whether it's in world or not. > Anyway, isn't 'world' going to vanish with the new '@' sets ? No. > > One or two problems a week against the thousands of people running it > > each day does not indicate a problem. I'd say that avoiding blockers > > etc by selectively skipping upgrades is more likely to lead to > > problems later. > No, people run 'emerge world' in the background, miss the messages > & then run into nasty trouble for omitting RR or 'etc-update'. Don't blame hammers because people try to use them to drive screws. Letting idiots break their systems is a refreshing sign of Gentoo's lack of idiot-proofing :) --=20 Neil Bothwick All mail what i send is thoughly proof-red, definately! --Sig_/6nt9bsV0g/vo3loODvzulwZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknGJn0ACgkQum4al0N1GQMt+wCgjizB6NYQelJUr0Gb5UBiJuOs PZ4An11dLj8vGU8/0PwHPt+gmnuipCTC =aClR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/6nt9bsV0g/vo3loODvzulwZ--