Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Neil Walker <neil@×××××××.nu> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> > I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite
> > clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge
> > --sync.
> >
> >
>
>  I have done that - in fact, I have been following the entire thread.
> However, it cannot be assumed that everyone does. That particular post could
> easily have misled someone just dipping in for the first time into believing
> that "emerge --sync" is dangerous. I felt it necessary to correct that. :)
>

Neil,
   I went back and read my original post to better underdtand your
point. In one way I completely agree with you. Personally I think the
post was *very* clear about what the problem was and how it came to
be. However if I read the last line in isolation, quoted here:

"Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or
did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking
everything?"

then I would agree that the use of the word pair 'break everything'
was unfortunate. It would have been more accurate had I written 'break
emerge'. Clearly 'everything' was NOT broken on that machine after
running emerge --sync. To me the post was clear and coherrant but I
could certainly agree that a complete newbie *might* have found that
last line frightening if they hadn't correctly understood that I was
only talking about my ability to run emerge.

   I was actually pretty careful about how I wrote the original post
but that one got by me. Sorry!

Thanks,
Mark
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