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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:12:13
Message-Id: 200802140105.34081.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge? by Mick
1 On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Mick wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote:
3 > > Thanks, Alan!
4 > >
5 > > Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00:51 PM, you wrote:
6 > > > On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote:
7 > > >> > attr provides extended attributes to ext2/3 and XFS file
8 > > >> > systems, used by selinux and posix capabilities. If you use
9 > > >> > these features, you already are aware of it.
10 > > >>
11 > > >> So, if I use reiserfs w/o ext attrs (option in kernel), I don't
12 > > >> need it probably. Correct?
13 > > >
14 > > > You certainly don't need it, as attr doesn't support reiser. I'm
15 > > > looking at my own reiser-based machine and wondering why on earth
16 > > > I ever merged it myself
17 >
18 > # equery depends attr
19 > [ Searching for packages depending on attr... ]
20 > sys-apps/acl-2.2.45 (>=sys-apps/attr-2.4)
21 > sys-apps/coreutils-6.9-r1 (acl? sys-apps/attr)
22
23 True, but mine is in world.
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25 I probably ran my eye down a list of packages one day and ran
26 'emerge -av <list of possibly useful stuff>' without putting a whole lot
27 of thought into it
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