<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Nice touch Jeremy !<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">-- kjh<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Jeremy Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jebrhansen+SBo@gmail.com" target="_blank">jebrhansen+SBo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 4:20 AM Matteo Bernardini <<a href="mailto:matteo.bernardini@gmail.com" target="_blank">matteo.bernardini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2018-07-02 12:08 GMT+02:00 Didier Spaier <<a href="mailto:didier@slint.fr" target="_blank">didier@slint.fr</a>>:<br>
> <rant><br>
> Should we say "Thank you!" to a SlackBuild maintainer who provides an<br>
> upgrade to a shared library so that the 172 packages that rely on it are<br>
> now broken?<br>
> </rant><br>
><br>
> Yes repology is an useful tool, but blindly upgrade all and every<br>
> SlackBuild wouldn't be a good thing IMO.<br>
><br>
> Have a good day,<br>
><br>
> Didier<br>
><br>
> PS Yes I know, the user has no obligation to apply an update. But not<br>
> all users are aware of the possible consequences of doing that.<br>
<br>
I totally agree.<br>
<br>
let me say also that the ones who browse repology and then write to<br>
maintainers "your SlackBuilds are outdated!" should take in account<br>
the above: there could be a lot of different reasons why some packages<br>
are not upgraded, not counting the false positives that repology often<br>
list as "upgrades".<br>
<br>
Matteo<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div></span><div>I found I was losing track of what packages I was intending to keep at their current versions and for what reason, so I ended up creating a page on my github to allow me (and others) to easily see if I just wasn't aware of an update or if I specifically decided to not update that program and for what reason.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/bassmadrigal/slackbuilds/blob/master/version-check.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>bassmadrigal/slackbuilds/blob/<wbr>master/version-check.md</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>That being said, I do use repology all the time so I can be made aware of some updates, then I can look over those updates and see if there's a good enough reason to update them. It's a great additional tool in the toolbox.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Jeremy</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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