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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: |
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> From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big |
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> no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really |
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> ran 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove |
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> now that I've got that cleaned up. |
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It's a list of packages you want installed on the system. Editing it |
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doesn't even remove anything, and if --depclean subsequently does, it's |
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hardly risky, since these are only user packages. You can break a system |
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by editing world because the critical packages aren't in there. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Interchangeable parts aren't. |
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