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050906 Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:06, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> 050905 Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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>>> it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key |
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>>> may break your system. How's about not warning |
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>>> if there's more than one installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) |
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>>> satisfying the profile atom that is being triggered? |
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>> -- patch snipped -- |
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>> I'ld say that the behaviour should be left alone |
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>> pending a larger rewrite of Portage's handling of this kind of thing. |
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>> Meanwhile, simply amend the warning to read in red letters eg |
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> Why? |
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>> "WARNING : removing this package may break your system !! |
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>> Have you checked that you have a proper alternative installed ?? |
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>> If you are not certain what you are doing, please STOP NOW !! |
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>> Do you want to proceed (NO/yes) ? " |
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> No. |
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Sorry, but that's neither adequate nor polite as a response |
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to the genuine problem which I raised as the original poster. |
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The answer to your question should be clear from the rest of my message |
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-- the present warning is misleading, as everyone has agreed -- |
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& your other response needs some explanation on your part. |
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Someone else has suggested that Portage can't handle a N/Y of this kind, |
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but in that case please offer some confirmation at least. |
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Do you respond so abruptly to your neighbours or colleagues at work ? |
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