Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:35:37
Message-Id: 201106072233.35596.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean by Alan McKinnon
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 13:36 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Alan McKinnon
2 did opine thusly:
3
4 > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:54 on Tuesday 07 June 2011, Neil
5 > Bothwick
6 >
7 > did opine thusly:
8 > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:10:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
9 > > > !!! 'app-editors/nano' is part of your system
10 > > > profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your
11 > > > system.
12 > > >
13 > > > !!! 'sys-apps/less' is part of your system
14 > > > profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your
15 > > > system.
16 > > >
17 > > > Anyone else seeing this?
18 > >
19 > > No. I don't have nano installed but I do have less. I see that portage
20 > > now has a less USE flag, which I disabled
21 >
22 > #370295
23
24 Zac responded (comment #21) to my post in that bug with quite a well-reasoned
25 rationale. It makes interesting reading.
26
27
28 --
29 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>