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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:48:32
Message-Id: 87bndtxjf8.fsf@reader.local.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim by Jeremi Piotrowski
1 Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrowski@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
4 >> The only thing I can say on my own behalf is that there was once a
5 >> time when it wasn't so far fetched to start emerge -vC 'ing stuff.
6 >
7 > Many thing's can be removed with `emerge -C` and recovered from, but I doubt
8 > unmerging packages in @system was ever a well supported operation...
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10 Note: Did I say it was `well supported'. `Not far fetched' is a good ways
11 from `well supported'...
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13 Far I recall that little warning about ruining your system has ALWAYS
14 been there.