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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Of death and prerm
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:40:20
Message-Id: 22950.49209.348653.293397@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Of death and prerm by Michael Orlitzky
1 >>>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2
3 >> This rather sounds like a case for package manager support with
4 >> some property like RESTRICT="uninstall".
5
6 > Would it still be possible to override with
7 > I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING=yes then?
8
9 No. If this was to be implemented in Portage, I think the canonical
10 way to override it would be via some token like "force-uninstall"
11 in FEATURES (which can be specified on the command line too).
12
13 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Of death and prerm Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>