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Well, tar is not a part of net-tools, so Doug shouldn't have any |
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problems there ;) |
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Rgds, |
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On 2011-09-02, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 |
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> Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: |
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>> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> |
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>> > wrote: |
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>> >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? |
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>> > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire |
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>> > package around when I have another package installed that does what |
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>> > the first package is supposed to do? ;) |
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>> `emerge -pv --depclean sys-apps/net-tools` is more reliable than |
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>> equery for finding dependencies. It will tell you that net-tools is |
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>> part of @system. It is generally discouraged for ebuild-developers to |
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>> add dependencies to stuff that belongs to @system. Therefore equery |
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>> does not help you find all dependencies. |
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>> If you are so eager to remove net-tools, you can try to replace all |
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>> binaries with symlinks to /bin/busybox. It should contain minimal |
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>> implementations for most binaries like hostname. Note that this can |
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>> seriously break your system if the busybox implementation is |
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>> insufficient. |
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> *Especially* don't use BusyBox tar. |
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> Been there, done that. |
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