-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > I do not believe we have discovered any useful pattern, other than > that is seems to happen more frequently with people who do not run > full world updates.
I don't think that running a world update should be valid solution to solve blocking issues. At work, we have some servers with pretty ancient package-sets because with newer versions third party apps are broken. I bump parts of the systems where it's neccessary and leave the rest alone. As a result i have to deal with all kinds of strange blockers or blockers which i haven't seen for years. I'm strongly against this, but it is how it is. So i have to totally agree with mgorny on > I was considering writing a news item for it but we discussed it on > IRC and decided that users are really expected to be able to > handle themselves, especially wrt to: > > 1. using 'emerge -Du @world' to upgrade their systems, > > 2. reading the blocker output to see that it states > '<dev-python/python-exec-10000' -> which suggests: what if I > upgrade to 10000? > Gentoo isn't a click-and-play distribution. I totally prefer automatic blocker resolution (as nearly all blockers can nowadays), but if something can't be solved automatically, everyone should be able to fix this manually. As long as it doesn't happen every week, i don't think that it's such a big thing. >>>> Autobuilds break, gentoo can't be installed, the distro dies. >>>> I know, sounds like I'm making something out of nothing but >>>> every time people look at the stages and notice they are >>>> months out of date we find another blog post announcing how >>>> gentoo is dead. I totally understand your point, but if i throw "gentoo python-exec blocker" into google, the second hit is this thread and the first post has the solution. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSdgEuAAoJEKCEBkJ3xQHtPH0H/0jZYUgYW1RB2LhSVM67dm+4 5Y76A5APck+cEnDcFBH7S5CQe93yeGwGWmgzBas8A3mvgI80d/IR1x/1iAVjZ9mW zjtC3gNGjkrqo8ciIOZUIQY4+iA+8XDtTezYGBdGn2H+LZGoqjycwT05Vf8+R06D CnlL9wyIVaY6VoA0QTSCez0EBd6Pnf7SxVwQHUwI/wt1fi4/hu8NkjFMC6QxLNQh oBCtI3P/akHrBs8GdZwaXqFTkGRdLUEF0BNljJS4TSg7mum3ZcoU2WgRj8DYL8Ty /wQX9JERjYb6hU5F6aXrJglUpJ5DKE7KESI6oDOK7DmxORMfndke1i8AKlXaKV8= =Dzg9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
