On Friday 24 August 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > > What do you think? > > > > Alex > > I definitely agree with you. > > Until it's done I suggest two ways of handling it: > 1. Check if any update seems to be bigger (like expat from 1.9 to 2.1) > 2. Make it your general rule to wait two days between emerge --sync > and emerge -uD world (except of critical updates). That way you can > watch the mailing list for the trouble that awaits you.
I agree too. The information that a certain new or upgraded package might break something and/or require special actions (like eg revdep-rebuild) can usually be known in advance (the warning messages are in the ebuild, after all), so imho a very simple yet effective solution could be to somehow mark or flag those packages before they are installed. One place to do this could be in the output of emerge -uDavnt world (before the user hits "y"!), another in the eix-sync summary that is usually displayed after the sync (this only for those who use eix-sync, of course). I'm sure the devs could find many other good (and probably better) ways to do this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
