Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug
Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:21:28
Message-Id: 200912060820.16139.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Saturday 05 December 2009 22:14:48 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > And world is important. world is the difference between 'installed
3 > manually' and 'just a dependency'. What you are doing fucks this up.
4 > Result: portage can not figure which package was installed because you
5 > want it and which one is just a dependency that can be removed by
6 > depclean.
7 >
8
9 It also removes portage's ability to manually resolve b blockers
10 --
11 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com