Re: Emerge --resume --skipfirst

On 4/28/26 7:20 PM, Alexis wrote:
> Dale <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> You may remember that I started this thread with an observation
>>> that --resume
>>> --skipfirst has been superseded, but that's what I needed to
>>> do.
>>>
>>> Full circle...
>>>
>> I'm not aware of anything changing.  Are there any docs for
>> these
>> changes?  I wish they would post on this list when things
>> changes.
> Yes, i'd be interested in a link to the referenced dev's comments;
> i'm not aware of any such change(s) myself, and it's the sort of
> thing that would probably come up on the Web forums (which is the
> primary place people seek support[a]). There's nothing in the
> emerge(1) man page entries for `--resume` and `--skipfirst` to
> indicate that they've been superseded by some other approach, or
> just generally deprecated.
>
>
> Alexis.
>
> [a] i much prefer mailing lists over Web forums myself, for
> various reasons, but my experience is that nowadays, the majority
> of users have the reverse preference, and strongly so.
>


Well, I think a dev posted something here on this list a while back 
about something that might be added to Gentoo.  I like it when they post 
something about changes because unless you read the docs every time 
there is a upgrade and remember enough to notice any changes, how else 
you going to know something changed?  I'll admit, I subscribe to the dev 
mailing list because that does give me a heads up to some changes.  I 
don't think changes to emerge is ever posted there.  I do on occasion 
see a discussion about adding a feature to emerge but rarely see 
anything about whether it was added or not.

Even if it was just a post to this list that was a short description and 
a link to a wiki, forum thread or the details itself, that would be a 
big help.  I guess that no one wants to volunteer to do the job that is 
in the know about the changes tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)