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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:45:21 +0100 |
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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your |
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> > proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges |
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> > gnome which first emerges X11 back again. |
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> Except i this example you are likely to install GNOME before removing |
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> KDE, otherwise you'd be left with no desktop. |
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> > This isn't so bad with a |
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> > binary distro if the packages are on a CD, but on gentoo it's murder. |
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> If you have the disk space to spare, set FEATURES="buildpkg". Then |
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> reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro. |
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The further complication there is that in this hypothetical situation |
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you are also likely to be changing some USE flags, and the prebuilt |
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buildpkg packages may need in fact to be built again against a new set |
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of libraries. |
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All of which is why I am glad I don't have to maintain portage and its |
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associated tools :) |
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