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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:03:25
Message-Id: 4B5D7A3F.20003@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster by "Petteri Räty"
1 Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > On 01/25/2010 04:28 AM, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Well put. I would agree that a simple warning should be given before
5 >> removing a system package or a package that system must have, especially
6 >> portage.
7 >> Maybe what portage needs is a reverse -n feature. Instead of adding
8 >> something to the world file, it removes a unwanted package from the
9 >> world file and then the user could use --depclean to remove that package
10 >> and its no longer needed friends. I assume this is doable.
11 >>
12 >>
13 >
14 > You can already use --depclean for this.
15 >
16 > Regards,
17 > Petteri
18 >
19 >
20
21 So there is already a option that is the reverse of -n ?
22
23 Dale
24
25 :-) :-)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster Patrick Nagel <mail@×××××××××××××.net>