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From:	Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage
Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:16:21
Message-Id:	`1197864626.545.59.camel@blackwidow.nbk`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage by Randy Barlow

1	On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 22:23 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
2	> It kind of
3	> makes me chuckle a bit that emerge -vC portage doesn't at least warn
4	> you
5	> that this will make a mess of your system (Are you sure?)
6
7	# emerge -Ca portage
8
9	>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
10
11
12	!!! 'sys-apps/portage' is part of your system profile.
13	!!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
14
15
16	I'd say that's fair enough.
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18	Albert W. Hopkins
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