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On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your |
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> proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges |
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> gnome which first emerges X11 back again. |
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Except i this example you are likely to install GNOME before removing |
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KDE, otherwise you'd be left with no desktop. |
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> This isn't so bad with a |
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> binary distro if the packages are on a CD, but on gentoo it's murder. |
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If you have the disk space to spare, set FEATURES="buildpkg". Then |
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reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. |
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