On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 01:45:23PM -0700, "Paweee Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 9/15/11 1:14 PM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:03:53 +0200 > > Joost Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to think of how best to avoid users who are not aware to > >> get caught with non-booting systems. > > > > Guess we could try to detect a few common cases and die in pkg_setup() > > whenever the failure is imminent. > > Even better in pkg_pretend if you can use EAPI=4
Which will misbehave if the kernel is one of the things to be updated. pkg_pretend shouldn't really be used for that unfortunately. ~brian