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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 08:39:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509060839.34718.jstubbs@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050905160655.GD7660@sympatico.ca>

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On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:06, Philip Webb wrote:
> 050905 Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key
> > may break your system. How's about not warning
> > if there's more than one installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver)
> > satisfying the profile atom that is being triggered?
>
> -- patch snipped --
>
> I'ld say that the behaviour should be left alone
> pending a larger rewrite of Portage's handling of this kind of thing.
> Meanwhile, simply amend the warning to read in red letters eg

Why?

>   "WARNING : removing this package may break your system !!
>    Have you checked that you have a proper alternative installed ??
>    If you are not certain what you are doing, please STOP NOW !!
>
>    Do you want to proceed (NO/yes) ? "

No.

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Jason Stubbs

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-05 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-04 14:11 [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual Philip Webb
2005-09-04 14:20 ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-09-04 14:22 ` Sebastian Bergmann
2005-09-04 17:36   ` Philip Webb
2005-09-04 17:55     ` Mike Frysinger
2005-09-04 18:21     ` Andrew Gaffney
2005-09-04 19:07       ` Philip Webb
2005-09-05 10:36         ` Jason Stubbs
2005-09-04 18:24 ` Mike Williams
2005-09-05 10:39   ` Jason Stubbs
2005-09-05 11:25     ` Jason Stubbs
2005-09-05 16:06       ` Philip Webb
2005-09-05 23:39         ` Jason Stubbs [this message]
2005-09-06  0:33           ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-09-06  8:33           ` [gentoo-dev] " Philip Webb
2005-09-06 12:21             ` Jason Stubbs
2005-09-06 12:30             ` Jason Stubbs

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