From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93BE21396D9 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 846A9E0D39; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:42:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 36D11E0CB6 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.23] (c-73-11-3-139.hsd1.or.comcast.net [73.11.3.139]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BC1ED33BF0F for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:42:06 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pkg_rm_pretend? To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20171012052024.19de672b@katipo2.lan> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <5163d136-43ff-dd83-f73a-bcd3171e5e85@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:44:07 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 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 In-Reply-To: <20171012052024.19de672b@katipo2.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2916776c-9f2b-4a28-a441-8324a1e0d400 X-Archives-Hash: 9be5155d61221763c90b0a129716b3a2 On 10/11/2017 12:20 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > TL;DR: It would be very nice if when I did: > > emerge --depclean -va > > That important packages like say, Postgres could go "hey, that's ... > probably gonna break things, you haven't migrated, are you sure?" > This might also scratch the itch I had[0] when I asked about "die" in pkg_prerm -- namely, a way to make package removal fail under certain conditions. [0] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/9c764b39e47b79290bcbf967fe5f0b38