From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IHhEu-0007oh-Ag for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2007 14:37:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l75Ea5XC022548; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:36:05 GMT Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk (pfepb.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.236]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l75ERPH5007526 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 14:27:25 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (0x503eab9f.hrnxx2.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk [80.62.171.159]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9860A50033 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:27:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Bo =?utf-8?q?=C3=98rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] prune dangers Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 16:27:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20070718003310.74d4e3e6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070718003310.74d4e3e6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2370959.Ml4irCqsO7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200708051627.24596.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: 01e6b02d-09c4-45b4-87df-5481fb7d5659 X-Archives-Hash: e5cf0e57ab1669e6665d705df6d74b2b --nextPart2370959.Ml4irCqsO7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 wouldn't work particularly well without qt-3.x either and gnupg-1.9.x would= =20 become pretty broken by removing gnupg-1.4.x... All in all --prune is rarel= y=20 a good idea.. ;) =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart2370959.Ml4irCqsO7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGtd5M8/kKEzmwNNoRAv2tAJ4whF7D3tYshMp3wnXxK8lGd4NvQwCffdOx 8a05TREz9AUjyJQjzRJcreY= =tREF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2370959.Ml4irCqsO7-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list