Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:00:33 Neil Bothwick wrote:
I think you missed an important part of the Gentoo philosophy, that it
gives you the loaded gun but it's up to you to not point it at your foot.
Not providing options that could potentially break a system in certain
circumstances is for a Nanny Distro. Here the ethos is "here's the tool,
read the man page and don't blame us if you do something stupid".
Does paludis also refuse to unmerge packages in the system set?
I like the traditional behaviour of portage. When an update fails it tends to
say:
"You asked me to do something. It didn't work; here's the output. Have a look
at it then tell me what to do next. I'm a dumb piece of software, you are the
thinking human so don't expect me to think for you."
A failed emerge is by definition an error, and unpredictable. How can we
expect software to dream up the best solution to an exception?
I have used --skipfirst before but I also don't think it is a good
idea. For a idiot like me to say that must mean something. I guess it
would depend on the package as to whether it could be skipped or not.
If I do a emerge -e world, I prefer nothing to fail else what is the point?
Later.
Dale
:-) :-)
