On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 17:12:27 +0400
Igor <lanthrus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Nice capitalisation! Speaking of which, where is the US$ 1,000,000
(ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) you promised in your last e-mail?
> Experience show that out of 20 new dependencies pulled by
> emerge only 1 is critical and really needed to assemble the target.
Don't bother to file bug reports if you think a fully up to date system
is not for you.
> 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?
RTFM.
> Is there any USE flag that can switch system to this kind of update
> instead of conventional?
No. You're confusing USE flags with package manager features.
> If no such USE flag, what about stabilize
> gentoo with STABILIZED flag implementation in make.conf?
Next time, please bother the gentoo-user@ mailing list.
jer
