On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:59:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Personally, I think portage has gone too far and the complex solutions > are causing problems that are worse than what they attempt to solve. > Amzing solutions (like sub-slots) aren't really much use in the real > world if the package maintainers use them incorrectly, right? > > Well that's my 2c. > I was quite happy with revdep-rebuild
I wasn't because it relied on your system being broken before it could do anything useful. @preserved-rebuild on the other hand was a perfectly acceptable solution. It didn't break things but kept them working until you could re-emerge the affected packages at a time t suit. Sub-slots are not only complex, they force rebuilds of packages at a time of their choosing, not mine. I'd rather not put all my other updates on hold because sub-slots decide that e-emerging the current versions of libreoffice and chromium is more important (thanks icu!). -- Neil Bothwick There is never enough beer, sex or disk space!
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