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.. ;)

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Bo Andresen