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On 13/07/17 00:19, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> It is YOUR comments that are funny, and going in a circular argument |
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> just to be argumentative and bringing nothing useful to the discussion. |
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> Which should be over now that bugs are filed.... |
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I'm not trying to be argumentative or antagonistic, I'm trying to |
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understand how your replacement warning differs from what's already |
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available and adds value. |
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>> '--depclean foo' is the user removing something they /are/ aware of |
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>> *if it's not a dependency*. |
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> That does not work the same. It will not remove a package from world. |
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$ grep apg /var/lib/portage/world |
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app-admin/apg |
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$ emerge -C apg |
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* This action can remove important packages! In order to be safer, use |
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* `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to check for reverse dependencies before |
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* removing packages. |
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<snip> |
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>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 |
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>>> Unmerging (1 of 1) app-admin/apg-2.3.0b-r5... |
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... |
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$ grep apg /var/lib/portage/world |
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app-admin/apg |
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$ emerge -c apg |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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>>> Calculating removal order... |
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<snip> |
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>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 |
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>>> Unmerging (1 of 1) app-admin/apg-2.3.0b-r5... |
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> Clearly you are having a hard time grasping this very simple concept. |
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> I am done, reply if you like, but this thread is serious noise now... |
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Clearly, hence why I was trying to understand what difference your |
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proposal offered. But since we're moving on to serious things now, I |
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guess I /am/ done with this thread. |
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Sam Jorna (wraeth) <wraeth@g.o> |
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