Chris Gianelloni ha scritto:
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:47 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote:Chris,
bob already know how to downgrade but he can't because his boss has crashed its chair on his head and now he his at the hospital.
bad boss, bad world
In your scenario, Bob is an Admin. If Bob were *my* admin and had not taken the time to read the ChangeLog for the package and not made changes on the test network before making them to the production network, Bob would be looking for a new job after that coffee. Also, if Bob were not smart enough to not stay with the stable portion of Gentoo, which is designed to not have feature loss and other such problems, but was instead using the "testing" branch on production servers, then Bob would be looking for a new job and I would be looking for a smarter administrator.
The whole point is that if you are blindly upgrading *anything* that you
rely on for day-to-day work, that really there is only one person to
blame, and that is yourself.
Really we are not speaking about me, I blindly make all kind of crappy stuff but _**never**_ on production system. Seldom on backup of production systems. I like the risk but not when it compromise other person than me.
*The* whole points are
that there is no way of choose a set of features (via USE flag) and expect that emerge keep updated my system obeying to my needs.
the stable/unstable stuff it's *not* a point what happen if upstream of say "l7" goes away for six month? your latest stable version will *stop* for six month.
Maybe iptables-1.3 must become stable before, and *ONLY* the people who want "l7" must stop at 1.2.9
* this * is * the * point *
Now you can say that it's easy or not, possible or impossible, you can ever say do it yourself (but expect that I do it).
What you can*not* say is that is a stable/unstable problem, or that the user must check before the user *will* check before he/she should not be costrained to mess with its /etc/portage/package.mask for *this* kind of stuff.
my apologies if that was not clear before, hoping that now it's better explained
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