Bug 35218

Summary:	Time to kill the 'emerge rsync' alias
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ciaran McCreesh 2003-12-06 12:14:02 UTC

It's time to kill 'emerge rsync' as an alias for 'emerge sync'. "How do I update
rsync?" is a common question on the mailing lists and on irc, and the old
deprecated alias is only causing problems.

I propose that the alias is removed sooner rather than later to avoid further
confusion to the users.

Comment 1 Danny Milosavljevic 2003-12-06 12:19:27 UTC

true...

Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-06 12:25:00 UTC

<AOL />

Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-06 17:46:46 UTC

Definately true. There are enough users who know better (>99%?) on -user and in the forums to handle the small number of people that do get confused.

Comment 4 Øyvind Repvik 2003-12-06 19:37:27 UTC

Agreed :)

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-06 19:58:41 UTC

this was put into effect once and a main developer freaked out over it

it has thus been reverted to the old style and will remain at Bug 2365 regardless
of how many people want to see it

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2365 ***