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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:08 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>> In my opinion, the old portage was good, the new one is even better. |
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>> Now if the next version will prevent a person from borking their |
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>> system, that would be heaven. lol You know, unmerge python and see |
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>> what happens. Yes, you can still unmerge python, even the only version |
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>> you have left, and portage not say a darn thing. It kills the heck out |
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>> of portage tho. |
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> Portage gives you a big red warning if you try to do this, but it |
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> doesn't, and shouldn't, try to stop you. What if you really want to |
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> remove Python? Postage is not the only package manager, so python is not |
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> compulsory. |
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It doesn't here. Someone else did the same thing a few weeks ago with |
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no warning or didn't mention seeing one at least. I've read where |
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others have done this too. |
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It just seems to me that portage should keep it so it can work. It |
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needs python to do that. Since portage is the package manager for |
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Gentoo, portage is the one that should be protected. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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