On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 18:50 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > Well, I often use quickpkg when I want to try a new version of a package > > (I quickpkg the currently installed one.. and I want to keep all the > > config files). Then I emerge the new one, and I absolutely want to be > > able to restore the config files if I want to revert to an older > > version, either because they have been broken by the pkg_postinst or > > something else. I still haven't heard a good reason to change anything > > thats not the printing in quickpkg. > > i didnt say i was going to be disallowing this, i said i'd be making it no > longer the default behavior ... what you want to do will still be perfectly > possible
Is quickpkg a candidate for FEATURES? I'd much prefer this be able to be controlled by a configuration file (and overridden on the command line) so I don't have to remember to put --iamsureidontcareaboutsecurity or whatever on the command line every time. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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