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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:09:26
Message-Id: 20200909090901.14d3dd39@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin? by antlists
1 On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 08:15:46 +0100, antlists wrote:
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3 > > That's the sort of thing I was thinking of. It could cause issues for
4 > > those that run emerge without checking what it is going to do, but
5 > > they are going to hit problems sometime anyway so they may as well
6 > > learn their lesson sooner;-)
7 > >
8 > > Hmm, I hadn't realised there were so many virtuals, I just looked and
9 > > saw 186 of them.
10 >
11 > Bear in mind --ask is interactive by its very nature, maybe it should
12 > ask "3 packages satisfy this virtual, please select ..."
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14 Of course it is, I was considering that not everyone uses --ask, or
15 --pretend.
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17 > Defaulting to package 1, of course.
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19 Which is what those people would get, as they do now.
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23 Neil Bothwick
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25 If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?