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 1RhjIY-0005Q7-KQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:55:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 587EA21C248; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:54:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iy0-f181.google.com (mail-iy0-f181.google.com [209.85.210.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877D021C21D for ; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iakk12 with SMTP id k12so32132809iak.40 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:50:58 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+BcQ5gRh/vDYPSzcBCaqlLqpbpT8VBqgiz1CPfwJu6c=; b=hlSy9Lqs5LN9y0fT4TEQzGrMv6sh9CU5TLAEqQYtR3/axomT99szdbYxG3aTFzhWzy qt0NuzKeCbIwUUhJ7XxwHs3k89xAcUD14h3YNpriTTA6mCMvN+3LJ3aIyAQLL1d3/Afm BRXElOtH02fOOc5cFVXlNis6loBHXWUKFCji8= Received: by 10.42.152.65 with SMTP id h1mr37748006icw.50.1325515858057; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:50:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.9.92] (adsl-76-236-174-54.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net. [76.236.174.54]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x18sm165615874ibi.2.2012.01.02.06.50.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:50:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F01C440.2050308@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:50:40 -0500 From: Michael Mol User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20111221 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior References: <4F00D521.1030702@orlitzky.com> <4F00DA52.1060504@gmail.com> <20120102115809.5259d3cf@rohan.example.com> <4F0184BB.5010307@gmail.com> <20120102125606.108b752b@rohan.example.com> <4F018FB8.1050001@gmail.com> <20120102133646.39d3583a@digimed.co.uk> <4F01B62C.2050104@orlitzky.com> <20120102140219.4194834d@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120102140219.4194834d@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8c1c6f9a-ac9b-4796-9da4-0272d1f54bba X-Archives-Hash: f951b66ff6ba4ea0254027151c58f776 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:50:36 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> * Nobody would use --update to install a new package > > Actually, that's a good reason to use --update on a single package, as > it installs a new package, but does not reinstall an existing package, > so you can emerge -u a list of packages and only install the new ones. > > However, you can now do that with -n, which does add to world, so this > can also be used as an argument for -u to not touch world. I'm leaning > towards the view that I would prefer world to be untouched, but, as I > said, there's no compelling argument one way or the other. > > Maybe you can file a bug report that gets enough votes to persuade Zac to > add a configuration option for this, or write the patch yourself. Personally, I'd *really* prefer not to have package manager semantics switch out from under me.