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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] masked portage 1.8.8-r1
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:49:57
Message-Id: 0GR0006H1UXOY2@mxout2.netvision.net.il
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] masked portage 1.8.8-r1 by Geert Bevin
1 On Monday 04 February 2002 00:33, you wrote:
2 > > In the --safe/--old issue .. i tend to agree with Vitaly that
3 > > it should rather be --force to force a unmerge of all. Just
4 > > blindly merging stuff usually do not break things ....
5 > > unmerging do though, and if you have the time for user
6 > > support ... ;)
7 >
8 > Personally I prefer it too.
9 > Ok, I propose to make the --safe flag the default action as requested
10 > and to add a new flag to make unmerge remove everything. Is --force a
11 > good name, or is --all better, or even nice ideas, anyone?
12 I vote for --all, "forcing" brings the wrong connotations to mind (for me at
13 least).
14
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16 Dan Armak
17 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE)
18 Matan, Israel