From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:33:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F01DC5B.3060808@orlitzky.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2H+efr5RFzjJ8xSx4ObngyfGSDFHKmvwMdjtT5Vb-QkO-RdQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/02/2012 11:22 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> I'm not clear. You allow your server customers to modify your servers,
> or what, they asked you to install stuff and now you don't know which
> of them was needed and why? I'm just not clear.
They ask us to install stuff, and now we don't know which ones are needed.
> My basic response, again allowing that I don't run servers that have
> 'customers' on them, is that 'equery depends' is the basic path to
> determine if any of these are dependencies of other things in the
> world file. If they are then they themselves possibly don't need to be
> in the world file unless they meet my rule #2 as they are required for
> some sort of development work your customer does.
>
> I completely agree about travel time. My family lives 350 miles away.
> I've managed their machines for 10 years this way and only once had a
> problem that required me to get physical access. In the normal worst
> case I have a Live CD with a couple of instructions they can execute
> to get me back into the machine.
Well, travel time sucks too, but I was referring to time travel via e.g.
a time machine, in case some wise guy tried to answer "well you
shouldn't have done that." =)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-02 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-01 21:50 [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-01 22:06 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-01 22:13 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-01 22:31 ` Dale
2012-01-01 22:40 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-01 22:49 ` Dale
2012-01-01 22:54 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2012-01-01 23:06 ` Dale
2012-01-01 23:07 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-01 23:07 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-01 23:22 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02 15:35 ` Tanstaafl
2012-01-02 15:47 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 15:53 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 16:01 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02 16:09 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 16:16 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 16:20 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 23:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-03 0:01 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 16:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 17:06 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 17:39 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 17:45 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 17:55 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 18:07 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 18:20 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 20:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 21:08 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 21:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 21:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 22:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 23:11 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 23:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-02 23:48 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-03 7:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-03 19:48 ` Walter Dnes
2012-01-03 0:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 23:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-02 23:49 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-03 0:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-03 0:22 ` Dale
2012-01-03 2:00 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-03 13:00 ` Mick
2012-01-03 2:00 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-03 11:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 17:47 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02 17:55 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 17:58 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-03 14:05 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-01-03 14:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-03 14:51 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-01-03 14:54 ` (Was) " Michael Mol
2012-01-03 14:55 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-03 16:00 ` Mick
2012-01-03 16:18 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-03 17:39 ` Mick
2012-01-03 17:43 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-03 17:52 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-01-03 18:12 ` Mick
2012-01-03 18:21 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-03 17:25 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 21:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-02 21:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 21:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 21:37 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 21:34 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 21:48 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 21:58 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 22:13 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 22:45 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 23:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-02 21:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 16:22 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02 16:33 ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2012-01-02 16:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 17:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 16:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 17:29 ` Mark Knecht
2012-01-02 17:47 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 20:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-03 11:49 ` Tanstaafl
2012-01-03 12:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-04 11:57 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-01-02 18:14 ` Graham Murray
2012-01-02 0:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 0:24 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 9:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 10:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-02 10:18 ` Mick
2012-01-02 13:46 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 15:31 ` Tanstaafl
2012-01-02 15:47 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 15:47 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-01 22:12 ` Dale
2012-01-02 9:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-02 10:19 ` Dale
2012-01-02 10:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-02 11:06 ` Dale
2012-01-02 13:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 13:50 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 14:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-01-02 14:50 ` Michael Mol
2012-01-02 15:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-01-02 15:26 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 16:25 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-01-02 16:34 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-01-02 18:38 ` Dale
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