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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] minimalistic emerge
From:       Jeroen Roovers <jer () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-08-08 13:32:37
Message-ID: 20140808153237.1f5b9dbb () marga ! jer-c2 ! orkz ! net
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 17:12:27 +0400
Igor <lanthruster@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

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