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On Saturday 03 September 2011 11:55:06 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> You can trust it because portage *is* the package manager, and the |
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> package manager always knows what the dependencies of packages are. |
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> Tools like equery can do analysis and stuff, but the final decision of |
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> what gets installed and what's needed is up to Portage. So if you can't |
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> trust the package manager, you're screwed anyway :-) |
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Well I did trust it yesterday when it decided it ought to remove MySQL. What |
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the hell, I thought: I can put it back easily enough. |
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So today when I started KMail it wouldn't. I had not only to remerge MySQL |
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but to add mysql USE flag to qt-sql in package.use and remerge qt-sql as |
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well. |
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Rgds |
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Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 |
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