Emerge enanchement.

[paolo]

Well, I want an option in "USE" for "emerge" that will have my programs updated only if a major version number of that programs has been relased

[IWBCMAN]

the idea doesn't sound that bad-but I believe in practice it would difficult-and counterproductive.


the majority of minor releases(changes in the minor number version) are bug-fixes, security patches and the like, which are generally desirable-as they tend to function better as the minor number increases. Of course there are plenty of exceptions. Major number version changes frequently reflect changes in the API- which affect all packages dependent on them. These API changes are actually what cause most of the initial bugs in new package release on Gentoo-because the changes are not alway apparent, and what ramifications they have on other dependent packages is not yet clear.


My personal position would be to plead for a USE flag which only allows for minor upgrades and not major upgrades which might make the system unstable.....

[paolo]