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* Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] !!! You have no world file.
  @ 2015-10-20 11:20 99%     ` Joakim Tjernlund
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From: Joakim Tjernlund @ 2015-10-20 11:20 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org

On Tue, 2015-10-20 at 10:52 +0200, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> On 16/10/15 22:25, Zac Medico wrote:
> > I think we can drop this warning. It's not like people's world
> > files just disappear unexpectedly, so the warning seems unnecessary
> > to me. When in doubt, people should use --pretend or --ask anyway,
> > and emerge --depclean already suggests this (except with --quiet).
> I'm not so sure. It's a kind reminder. Seems useful if you're SSH-ing

It is not a kind reminder, it is a really scary message. 

> into a system you rarely use. What about the "You have no system list"
> warning -- should that go too then?

depends, I figured @system was mandatory so that one should stay.

> 
> IMO, this is removing a simple solution to a GOTCHA for no real benefit.

People like me should not have to see this every time one do --depclean
or just users on a customized gentoo gets really scared and starts calling IT
claiming there is something wrong with their gentoo.

> 
> As is, it might be a bit too noisy/intrusive though.

Yes, keep under debug flag instead?

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