As of Portage 2.2.8-r1 and emerge 1.11 ---------------------------------------- Ideas for improvement: --------------------- - Updating packages can be a nightmare over time, as this brings along package version conflicts and package conflicts, such as : systemd and udev. As this can be tedious, and in some cases impossible to solve effectivly, i would like to suggest adding a new flags. --auto-update This will improve the --update flag by adding these features: -ability to search online database to see what is the most recommended package to use when a conflict is brought into play. -remove old packages to remove conflicts -edit /etc/portage/package.* files to coincide with blocked and unblocked packages so users dont have to do each one manually - in CLI choices before emerge changes anything: -this will allow users to have full control over files being edited, packages that will be removed and installed and what package to use when there is a conflict (this will override the online database suggestion) - options (1,2,3 ect.. for the conflict choices) (Y , N , YA , NA .. for the package choices - Y=yes N=no A=all) -Force use of higher version package instead of needing to downgrade (might break things in rare cases but will remove conflicts and allow a full update) -deep search to what depends on selected package and give choices to alternate programs if the current ones are known to break after change) -There can be alot more that could be built on this idea --Stock-Wipe --Stock-Set -These flag will be used as a full system restore --Stock-Set - To be used after 1st initial setup or at a point in time where the system is setup as the user likes it - This will collect the list of packages and version numbers at the current time and save to file. It will also keep them in a offline database --Stock-Wipe - To Clean the system back to restore point - This will get a list of all packages and versions at the current time and compare them to the --Stock-Set file. Any versions numbers that are higher and package names that arent in the 1st file will be listed for removal, once removed emerge will look at the --stock-set file and install all of those packages.
I think this is too vague to be actionable.
