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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: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:26:49
Message-Id: 4B5D63BA.1000506@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster by Dale
1 On 01/25/2010 04:28 AM, Dale wrote:
2 >
3 > Well put. I would agree that a simple warning should be given before
4 > removing a system package or a package that system must have, especially
5 > portage.
6 > Maybe what portage needs is a reverse -n feature. Instead of adding
7 > something to the world file, it removes a unwanted package from the
8 > world file and then the user could use --depclean to remove that package
9 > and its no longer needed friends. I assume this is doable.
10 >
11
12 You can already use --depclean for this.
13
14 Regards,
15 Petteri

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