Igor: > Hi, > > About 60% of all the packages are installed and work with nodep flag > without any problems for years. Most of the maintainers just depend on new > packages not knowing if it's necessary or not resulting in a really HUGE > update that in the absolute majority of cases destabilize GENTOO making it > not operational and WORSE than it was before. You then STABILIZE it again > spending hours and then the story repeats itself. > > Experience show that out of 20 new dependencies pulled by > emerge only 1 is critical and really needed to assemble the target. > > Is there any option in emerge to pull MINIMUM packages to > get the result - install the application you need, leaving everything else > AS IS untouched and stable? > > I would rather prefer and many would agree to use this kind of > install instead of a full system update by default. > > Is there any USE flag that can switch system to this kind of update instead > of conventional? If no such USE flag, what about stabilize gentoo with > STABILIZED flag implementation in make.conf? > > Whoever needs everything new - can continue fighting with nature, > the rest of us who has a limited life span - well, they might go for > STABILIZED flag and live happily ever after. > > What do you think? > >
Maybe try paludis. It allows more fine-grained control over the dependency resolution process: http://paludis.exherbo.org/clients/cave-resolve.html
