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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ironing out release tarballs
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 06:38:50
Message-Id: 20151016083824.023abf3a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ironing out release tarballs by Rich Freeman
1 On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:15:42 -0400
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
5 > wrote:
6 > > On 10/15/2015 02:51 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> The only change in moving it to @profile is the warning.
9 > >
10 > > What's the point of getting rid of the warning if the package is
11 > > going to get pulled back in on the next @world update? Either way,
12 > > the end result it that the user has to go through some hoops
13 > > (/etc/portage/profile overrides) if they don't want that package
14 > > installed again.
15 >
16 > ++
17 >
18 > I think just pre-seeding the world file is a simpler solution. Users
19 > can just uninstall the files normally then.
20
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22 +1
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25 pre-seeding world means 'emerge -C package' gets rid of it, the
26 @profile idea makes it completely different to uninstall it