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On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: |
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> >> That will tell you packages that are installed and !may! not be |
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> >> needed by other packages. Note all the warnings here? I have not |
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> >> had anything serious removed by using this in ages but strange |
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> >> things can happen. You need to be careful with this. Remove the |
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> >> wrong thing and it can be a uphill battle to get it fixed. |
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> > |
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> > Like the fellow in the next desk this morning updating a machine |
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> > that hasn't been touched since 2005 (!) |
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> > |
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> > He noticed a blocker with python-updater after 'emerge world' and |
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> > was about to unmerge python and remerge the new one to get around |
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> > the blocker ... |
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> > |
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> > Lucky I saw it in time... |
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> New friend for life I suspect. That would be a doozy for sure. I |
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> haven't done that yet. |
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I have :-) |
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I've also removed (forcibly) all versions of gcc, portage, and glibc |
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individually and all together. quickpkg is a nice thing to know |
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about :-) |
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Once I even merged busybox to the root filesystem. It overwrites all the |
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Unix tools with symlinks to busybox. Cool, you get a tiny install that |
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can go on an embedded device. |
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BUT, busybox give you tar, it does not give you tar -o |
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Guess which gentoo-specific app requires tar -o? Do I hear the |
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word "portage"? Anyone?? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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