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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:05:04
Message-Id: 4B5C157E.802@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster by Benny Pedersen
1 On 01/24/2010 07:12 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote:
2 >
3 > should not be marked as system ?
4 >
5 > it removes python-wrapper and this remove python link from
6 > /usr/bin/python linked to /usr/bin/python-wrapper so all portage does
7 > not work after this, but i solved it with a quickpkg from another host
8 >
9 > my dump question why is it not listed as a system pkg when it really
10 > seems so important ?
11 >
12
13 Removing packages with emerge -C is always potentially dangerous. The
14 recommended tool these days is emerge --depclean. emerge -C really only
15 comes to use with blockers and then maintainers should design the
16 upgrade paths so that you don't need to remove anything that breaks things.
17
18 Regards,
19 Petteri

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