From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZMj5-0008Ps-Vd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:03:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A4CDE09DB; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f174.google.com (mail-yw0-f174.google.com [209.85.211.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A7CDE09DB for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh4 with SMTP id 4so1931656ywh.10 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:02:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tDefhv8YDEbrnjgfbGLmexr52yCKDQhU0XJHuFOFCiE=; b=PjtcwXuvLScJEBAqPiHkGy1rLgXK1N3CEwBW8ctjajO+JBtUZFXLHPA9ZLvPIJypaP KjtcX51VAGrmgD1grI/Bf3+mlnKaOqualk6peK5ra/nkWMc2sB1y+/yzOZlY2Qs3cSA5 2Cv7nHZWoUyN1PouKnLzUNjle4vg/7ibpQfpg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mLPB8DrP76OB/AOhPYukUh5V3h63vW9rX5IFXRmdrV1tqmrRR683zwkdJI8xSA1/uk dqP/eAJu7opSX6MBmpj/tUUxOOMaKxW0ZOMBF/0PppfkkxmpGYtPdF6pj1MjnkBZ3Ux6 S1QS0TspZz0K16g5K41jbGgjyve56iPny8428= Received: by 10.100.82.1 with SMTP id f1mr3859959anb.39.1264417346080; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:02:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-240-57-67.jan.bellsouth.net [74.240.57.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm1607300yxe.56.2010.01.25.03.02.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:02:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B5D7A3F.20003@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:02:23 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20100120 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -C eselect-python disaster References: <20100124061239.182027axa254v2kn@mail.junc.org> <4B5C2A0F.5080202@gentoo.org> <4B5C7B14.2060902@gentoo.org> <4B5CAB65.30408@gentoo.org> <4B5CDFB3.3010108@gmail.com> <2e0007041001241753v3d24abcanc4a82800d33bb0f4@mail.gmail.com> <4B5D01D0.8070800@gmail.com> <4B5D63BA.1000506@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4B5D63BA.1000506@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: fd83f998-8171-410b-8318-c39ca4be6b53 X-Archives-Hash: 584065c6139430d0409e1004aabee0db Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > On 01/25/2010 04:28 AM, Dale wrote: > =20 >> Well put. I would agree that a simple warning should be given before >> removing a system package or a package that system must have, especial= ly >> portage. >> Maybe what portage needs is a reverse -n feature. Instead of adding >> something to the world file, it removes a unwanted package from the >> world file and then the user could use --depclean to remove that packa= ge >> and its no longer needed friends. I assume this is doable. >> >> =20 > > You can already use --depclean for this. > > Regards, > Petteri > > =20 So there is already a option that is the reverse of -n ? Dale :-) :-)=20