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On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:31:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > It just seems to me that portage should keep it so it can work. It |
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> > needs python to do that. Since portage is the package manager for |
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> > Gentoo, portage is the one that should be protected. |
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> Portage is A package manager, but if you are using portage to remove |
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> packages, it should be intelligent about removing its own dependencies. |
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> Taken more globally, maybe portage should warn whenever you are trying to |
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> remove a package that is a dependency of anything in @world. |
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Could be useful if implemented with an off switch |
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Or leave it off by default, users can enable it in make.conf if they wish. I |
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often unmerge deps of things in world, but I know (usually) what I'm doing and |
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will follow up with a --deep later. Annoying "Are you sure?" "Are you REALLY |
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sure?" might make me switch to Ubuntu :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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