On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 00:05:27 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > But don't you agree that it *should* be possible to simply pull upgrades > from the distro of choice without solving "problems in my head" ? > > IMO it's the definition of maintainers to keep that level of complexity > away from the plain users. Especially for users of the stable "branch" > (the OP of this thread wrote "stable" = amd64 machine).
It should, but this is not an ideal world. The ncurses thing was simply a bug that affected a lot of people because subslots didn't work in the way some devs expected. It should have worked but some thing broke and it didn't, then a bug report was filed, the problem discussed and fixed, so now you can just upgrade without a problem. This does add weight to Alan's argument that subslots are not that well thought out, but Gentoo (like life) is a perpetual work in progress. -- Neil Bothwick The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.
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