On 8 August 2012 01:58, Michał Górny wrote:
> I don't think that's possible. Much like with other kinds of updates,
> the packages in the tree would be updated to install in the new
> location anyway.
Sure, but the question is "when does this happen". Users are expecting
such changes when they em
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 10:48:01 -0400
Rich Freeman wrote:
> I think any kind of large-scale directory moves are going to be risky
> on a distro like Gentoo. We should probably give them careful thought
> before implementing them. This isn't something like Ubuntu where you
> practically wipe and re-
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> I don't think that's possible. Much like with other kinds of updates,
> the packages in the tree would be updated to install in the new
> location anyway.
>
If I were faced with doing this manually I know the first thing I'd do
is run quickp
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:10:35 +0200
Peter Stuge wrote:
> Rather than adding a prompt for the user to have to care about
> (everyone will answer yes all the time or no all the time anyway)
> I suggest that the action be made easy to undo, so that when
> something breaks it is possible and indeed eas
Kent Fredric wrote:
> I suggest, that due to the volatility of such actions, a user should
> have to approve each bulk move before it is done, to avoid breaking
> things.
Further thoughts about this:
* The move is needed for some reason.
* The person running emerge will in the common case not kn
On 7 August 2012 19:52, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Right now, every time a bigger bunch of stuff (installed by various
> packages) needs to be moved around the filesystem, we have a lot of
> work to handle it somehow. And finally, users end up having to either
> rebuild a lot of packages to
Hello,
Right now, every time a bigger bunch of stuff (installed by various
packages) needs to be moved around the filesystem, we have a lot of
work to handle it somehow. And finally, users end up having to either
rebuild a lot of packages to get the files in the new locations, or
we do ugly things
