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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] prune dangers
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:27:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708051627.24596.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070718003310.74d4e3e6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

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On Wednesday 18 July 2007 01:33:10 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:00:48 +0000, Thufir wrote:
> > It seems that prune would break all sorts of software, yes?
>
> Yes, which is why the emerge man page states
[SNIP]
> > In particular, GNOME and X windows?
>
> No. In particular the toolchain. GNOME and X work quite happily without
> slotted packages in general.

Well.. GNOME doesn't work all that well without glib-2.x and gtk+-2.x. KDE 
wouldn't work particularly well without qt-3.x either and gnupg-1.9.x would 
become pretty broken by removing gnupg-1.4.x... All in all --prune is rarely 
a good idea.. ;)

-- 
Bo Andresen

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      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-05 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-17 23:00 [gentoo-user] prune dangers Thufir
2007-07-17 23:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-08-05 14:27   ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]

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