Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly:
> Am 23.06.2011 00:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
> >> This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is
> >> Gentoo after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-)
> > 
> > In what way is it bad?
> 
> It is "bad" because
> 
> a) it is new, and new stuff is always evil :-P
> b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations. Without
> autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to do. With
> autounmask it shows what needs to be done.

That is probably the most evil of all your reasons. There's an old dev 
joke about The Law Of Unintended Consequences, and it applies here - 
portage is now suddenly doing something new and 180 different from 
what it used to do. The normal response if "WTF?" followed by lots of 
indignation

> c) it is a big change that came wihout any warning
> d) it is an automation, and because of that a red flag for any "real
> gentoo user" :-D


I agree, it's all bad.

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