Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> Den 29. mai 2016 03:17, skrev Gregory Woodbury:
>> WOW!
>>
>> Alan just wants to start it and walk away, as if Gentoo was a binary
>> distribution
>> that handles it all upstream.  He doesn't want to take the time to
>> review what
>> emerge is proposing and see if changes are needed first.
>>
> It IS actually possible to do that, at least for non-critical systems.
> Just make sure to mail yourself with the emerge output, so you can fix
> things before the next automatic run.
>
> The point being that you don't have to sit and watch while emerge works.
> You can have the output of any blocks or failures waiting for you in
> your inbox at your convenience.
>
> For this to work in a timely fashion you need to stay on stable packages
> as much as possible, and also keep other customizations to a minimum,
> e.g. don't use --autounmask-write.
>

Thing is, that's not what Alan seems to want.  Alan wants something like
Ubuntu or something where you tell it to upgrade and then walk away
without checking anything.  Yea, you can script some things like
syncing, emailing a -p output to yourself and such but all that requires
a break in the process and Alan doesn't seem to get that part.  Alan
wants to type in one command and not put any effort into checking what
will be done or needs changing. 

I run a desktop here and it's not like my life or anything depends on
it.  There is no way I would do blind updates on this system for any
reason.  If I'm to busy to do my part, I wait until another time to do
the updates. 

Dale

:-)  :-)