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On Wednesday 18 July 2007 01:33:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:00:48 +0000, Thufir wrote: |
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> > It seems that prune would break all sorts of software, yes? |
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> Yes, which is why the emerge man page states |
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[SNIP] |
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> > In particular, GNOME and X windows? |
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> No. In particular the toolchain. GNOME and X work quite happily without |
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> slotted packages in general. |
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Well.. GNOME doesn't work all that well without glib-2.x and gtk+-2.x. KDE |
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wouldn't work particularly well without qt-3.x either and gnupg-1.9.x would |
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become pretty broken by removing gnupg-1.4.x... All in all --prune is rarely |
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a good idea.. ;) |
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Bo Andresen |
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