On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > On 16/02/2013 07:08, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: >> What happens why a user runs --depclean and has a masked package >> installed? Oh that's right, it uninstalls. My systems do that >> automatically, but you are welcome to assume "stupid user didn't read >> messages" if that is easier. > > That's not right. It doesn't. > > emerge -avuDN blah-blah-blah > > !!! The following installed packages are masked: > - media-gfx/blender-2.64a::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) > /var/cache/portage/tree/profiles/package.mask: > # Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@gentoo.org> (05 Feb 2013) > # Needs a complete ebuild rewrite to use CMake, and a new patchset to > # unbundle the bundled libraries. Use at your own risk; don't ask for > # a bump unless you can provide the two needed items. > > emerge --depclean > >>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: > > x11-misc/makedepend > selected: 1.0.4 > protected: none > omitted: none > > All selected packages: x11-misc/makedepend-1.0.4 > > So, I'm afraid you're exaggerating a little bit. Yes, we should look > better in which firmware packages to remove (because they are merged in > linux-firmware or the driver is gone), but that does not mean we should > not ever consider touching ever a single one of them. > > And I mean, we've had quick-stable updates that were much more > destructive than "just" removing the firmware of the nic (which is most > likely still available to emerge if the user is not using eclean-dist). > udev-197 anyone?
So because we did things badly in the past, that is an excuse to do things badly in the future? :) I do not necessarily encourage developers to make mistakes. Mistakes will happen (as we are all human) but we should probably strive to put some effort into not screwing up. -A > > -- > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes > flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ >
