Re: [gentoo-dev] Sets vs Meta ebuilds

[Brian Evans]

On 7/10/2017 2:59 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:43:11 -0400
> "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote:
> I think portage should also warn on removing packages that came in from
> another. If you are removing any dependency of another package.
>
>

Portage will refuse to remove a package if it is a dependency, but you
have to change the invocation to be 'emerge -avc <package>'.

Then it will be very verbose if something needs said package.

Brian