Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:07:33 Dale wrote:
>
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:08 -0600, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>> In my opinion, the old portage was good, the new one is even better.
>>>> Now if the next version will prevent a person from borking their
>>>> system, that would be heaven.  lol  You know, unmerge python and see
>>>> what happens.  Yes, you can still unmerge python, even the only version
>>>> you have left, and portage not say a darn thing.  It kills the heck out
>>>> of portage tho.
>>>>
>>> Portage gives you a big red warning if you try to do this, but it
>>> doesn't, and shouldn't, try to stop you. What if you really want to
>>> remove Python? Postage is not the only package manager, so python is not
>>> compulsory.
>>>
>> It doesn't here.  Someone else did the same thing a few weeks ago with
>> no warning or didn't mention seeing one at least.  I've read where
>> others have done this too.
>>
>> It just seems to me that portage should keep it so it can work.  It
>> needs python to do that.  Since portage is the package manager for
>> Gentoo, portage is the one that should be protected.
>>
>
>
> Portage is not the package manager for Gentoo. It is *A* package manager for
> Gentoo.
>
> Trying to assign it some special exalted status will always get you in trouble
> when trying to understand why things are the way they are. The only special
> thing about portage is that it carries officially supported status.
>
>

That was my point.  Someone else can make a package manager if they want 
to but portage is the official Gentoo package manager.  As far as I 
know, portage has always been Gentoo's package manager.  I been here 
since 1.4 so while it is possible that I missed it but somewhat doubtful.

Dale

:-)  :-)