Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:26:10 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> > Manual means manually added to the list by python-updater, rather than
>> > using any sort of detection.
>> >
>>
>> OK, I won't bother with the many definitions of the word manual or how
>> that effects the conversation from my end 'cause that don't matter
>> much to Linux man-page writers. ;-)
>
> I agree that describing an automated default as manual is somewhat less
> than intuitive...
>

Yep. Generously I'd say they meant something like 'from a manual of
known apps', etc., but clearly other words like 'list' might have been
more intuitive, at least to me.

>> However I'm still failing to see
>> the interest in this as it only removes 1 or 4 packages (boost) that
>> I've rebuilt multiple time. 75% of the failures still fail using
>> -dmanual.
>>
>> c2stable ~ # python-updater -p -dmanual
>>  * Starting Python Updater...
>>  * Main active version of Python:  2.7
>>  * Active version of Python 2:     2.7
>>  * Active version of Python 3:     3.1
>>  *   Adding to list: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0
>>  *   Adding to list: app-emulation/virtualbox:0
>>  *   Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0
>>  *   Adding to list: app-office/openoffice-bin:0
>
> I've also been hit by the first, as I think I mentioned. As for the other
> two, re-emerging a binary package won't help at all, because it's a binary
> package, so you unpack it rather than rebuild it. That's more a problem
> with using binary packages on a source distro than a fault of
> python-updater itself.

Understood and agreed. For OO I couldn't quite get up the interest to
start building from scratch though. Something like 450MB of things to
download and then what, do it again in a week or two? Not worth it for
my needs.

Thanks for all the insights. I do appreciate your inputs.

Cheers,
Mark