On 01/02/2012 04:34 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Orlitzky<mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote:
On 01/02/2012 04:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
cocktail
Neil's suggestion of sets sounds like what you want here. Unfortunately
it only works smoothly on first emerge (later on you have to dig
through dep graphs to find the full dep list):
First run emerge -p to find all the packages that will be pulled in,
and add the whole lot to a set with a clear name that indicates it's
function. Then emerge that set. As you discover further deps you can
manually add them to the set
It's quite a lot of extra work and you have to remember to do it, but
it has the benefit of being somewhat self-documenting, at least in
terms of having a record of what set pulled a package in initially.
Requires time travel, not a solution!
Seriously. Do you want a solution, or do you just want to rant about a
change to the behavior of --update?
All I originally wanted to know was if anyone had a real reason to
prefer the current behavior over the old.
I've shown that there's a problem with the current behavior; if there
are no real problems with the old behavior, then it's worth raising the
issue.
I know how to avoid the problem in the future, but there are plenty of
other Gentoo users who don't, and who also won't be able to fix today's
mistakes a year from now.
