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On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:17:30 +1000 |
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"Sam Jorna (wraeth)" <wraeth@g.o> wrote: |
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> --depclean is doing exactly what it is supposed to. If called with no |
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Problem is I was talking about removing packages directly. It served no |
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purpose in this discussion. |
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Since I use --depclean, not -c. I was assuming -c was unmerge like -C, |
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but it is not. Others brought that up and sidetracked things. I just |
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did not catch and mistakenly went down that wormhole. |
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> > It is not the same as -C, which is remove a package directly. |
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> > --unmerge (-C) |
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> Correct, --unmerge will remove a package without considering |
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> dependencies (give or take a few special cases). It is usually (or, at |
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> least, should generally be) reserved for those taking a hammer to a |
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> problem or with a particular desire to recover a broken system. |
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> Again, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to - removing a package |
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> you've told it to remove (unless it's one of the few |
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> almost-always-critical packages). |
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Yes and if you see bug. All I am saying is adding warnings when someone |
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goes to remove a dependency. Since a dependency IS a critical package :) |
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Add warning message when -C/--unmerge a dependency like system, |
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profile, and set files. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624630 |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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