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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] minimalistic emerge
From: Johannes Huber <johu () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2014-08-08 21:04:40
Message-ID: 1849658.NcBNHhADz6 () elia
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Am Freitag 08 August 2014, 17:12:27 schrieb Igor:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> Experience show that out of 20 new dependencies pulled by
> emerge only 1 is critical and really needed to assemble the target.
>
> 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?
>
> I would rather prefer and many would agree to use this kind of
> install instead of a full system update by default.
>
> Is there any USE flag that can switch system to this kind of update instead
> of conventional? If no such USE flag, what about stabilize gentoo with
> STABILIZED flag implementation in make.conf?
>
> Whoever needs everything new - can continue fighting with nature,
> the rest of us who has a limited life span - well, they might go for
> STABILIZED flag and live happily ever after.
>
> What do you think?
/me is thinking:
Your caps lock key is broken and about the content: man portage || use linux
from scratch
--
Johannes Huber (johu)
Gentoo Linux Developer / KDE Team
GPG Key ID F3CFD2BD
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