From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage is proposing an ncurses update and I don't understand what it means
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 10:00:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150904100029.2f643213@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E8C427.9030501@xunil.at>
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On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 00:05:27 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> But don't you agree that it *should* be possible to simply pull upgrades
> from the distro of choice without solving "problems in my head" ?
>
> IMO it's the definition of maintainers to keep that level of complexity
> away from the plain users. Especially for users of the stable "branch"
> (the OP of this thread wrote "stable" = amd64 machine).
It should, but this is not an ideal world. The ncurses thing was simply a
bug that affected a lot of people because subslots didn't work in the way
some devs expected. It should have worked but some thing broke and it
didn't, then a bug report was filed, the problem discussed and fixed, so
now you can just upgrade without a problem.
This does add weight to Alan's argument that subslots are not that well
thought out, but Gentoo (like life) is a perpetual work in progress.
--
Neil Bothwick
The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-02 1:06 [gentoo-user] Portage is proposing an ncurses update and I don't understand what it means walt
2015-09-02 1:21 ` wabenbau
2015-09-02 1:37 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-09-02 6:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-02 12:24 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-09-02 13:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-02 13:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-09-03 16:10 ` walt
2015-09-03 19:09 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-09-03 20:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-09-03 21:07 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-09-03 22:05 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2015-09-03 23:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-09-04 9:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-09-04 10:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-09-04 10:53 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-09-04 9:00 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-09-02 13:10 ` James
2015-09-02 13:34 ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2015-09-02 15:53 ` Dale
2015-09-03 2:06 ` walt
2015-09-03 7:06 ` Dale
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