Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:47:27
Message-Id: 20090527104714.52730b51@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python by Jon Hardcastle
1 On Wed, 27 May 2009 01:32:13 -0700 (PDT), Jon Hardcastle wrote:
2
3 > But I was EXPECTING portage to not let me do something that would stop
4 > the 'solution' (and that is what it is whether at the portage or the
5 > gentoo level) working.
6
7 Gentoo provides the gun, it does not prevent you pointing at your foot.
8 Hand holding is for other distros, although the lack of the serious
9 warning that you used to get when trying to unmerge python (and still do
10 for gcc, glibc, etc) is a definite backwards step.
11
12
13 --
14 Neil Bothwick
15
16 ...context...

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature