> On 25 Nov 2021, at 13:59, Thomas Deutschmann <whi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > If you do a normal world upgrade, this is the default portage behavior, not? > I.e. package manager will downgrade if you don't stop. And especially on > servers, people tend to use cronjobs/scripts to do that...
I would really not recommend doing this and I say this regularly. We expect users to: - read elog output; - read news items first; - read pkg_pretend / pkg_postinst output which may be critical and needed to be acted on soon (even if it's accompanied by a news item, although it isn't always). Should we try to improve that situation? Yeah, I think so, but that's really not the case right now. > And forcefully here refers to the undesirable result (at least that was my > intention). Something the user doesn't want. As we've discussed at length during the "Bitcoin consent" issue (wrt Taproot), users are expected to read and verify world upgrade output before proceeding. We have similar issues with e.g. new major glibc versions (you shouldn't do this unless you're in a position to restart at least several services).
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