-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 16/01/13 10:24 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Michael Weber <x...@gentoo.org> > wrote: >> how does portage @preserved-libs work? maybe we could emerge >> @update[s] and @glsa. > > @glsa actually makes a lot of sense. I'm not convinced we want > @updates as a shortcut for a bunch of settings though. Sets are > just about picking which packages to operate on, and overloading > them in this way is going to just lead to confusion. Sets should > be nothing more than lists of packages, and then the other emerge > parameters can be used to filter them. > > I'd just stick with a simple parameter like --upgrade or an > alternative command name like emerge-update. > > Oh, here's another crazy thought. How about some directory in > /etc that sets rules for emerge-update (or whatever we call it)? > You might have a bunch of low-numbered rules that set/append > variables like EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS, and then a bunch of > higher-numbered rules that actually run commands. Then if you > install eix or layman they could stick a hook in there to trigger > their own respective updates. A downside is that it makes the > behavior of the command a bit less predictable. An upside is that > the behavior of the command will only change subject to config file > protection (well, sort-of - additional rule files don't typically > trigger protection). > > Rich >
That is a very interesting idea -- especially considering the implications of multiple stages, ie, "emerge-update" could be configured to --sync, then -uDwhatever @world , then --depclean, then revdep-rebuild, simply by having four entries in /etc/emerge-update. Of course when looking at this kind of functionality we're probably looking at something that would almost be better to leave as a separate package (at least in the beginning) rather than putting it drectly into portage; and that means it won't be universal yet... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlD4EZ4ACgkQ2ugaI38ACPCtTQD+MyI8PDPfgqm//8S3U3bFDiNr DE7OZKbhb1oAOEFzP+oA/RY3rFxbAmEDm7S2YpnKWvaGRi/bIe8fNjFXYV03ugIz =6MPD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
