Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Sonntag 24 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 24 May 2009 20:06:59 Arttu V. wrote:
> > On 5/24/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > profiles are cascading and support multiple inheritance (parent files
> > > can contain several entries). So, you have to run
> > >
> > > find /usr/portage/profiles -name packages
> > >
> > > to find them all, and apply brain power to find the few that actually
> > > apply
> >
> > Cascading yes, but I'd say no to the find-command. You should be able
> > to ask portage itself. After all, it has to know your current system
> > set for its own work, let it do the cascading calculations (unions for
> > sets):
>
> Dale asked *where* system is defined, not what it consists of.
>
> These are entirely different questions with entirely different answers.
>
> > emerge -p @system
> >
> > And even better, if I read correctly from portage man-page (look for
> > the "packages" and packages.build file section there), it is nearly
> > trivial to add files to a local system set. Just add
> > asterisk-prepended lines to /etc/portage/profile/packages. Just tried
> > it, it seems to work, got python and games-board/megamek added to my
> > system set according to emerge -p @system! :D
>
> It appears you are completely missing the point. It is indeed very easy to
> add things to the @system set, but we are talking about the system set, and
> it is broken out of the box as shipped. Look at the size of this thread
> already and what it has taken to gain the understanding we have now. How is
> a new user supposed to be able to figure this out?
>
> Portage will not let you unmerge portage or gcc without a fight. It offers
> a way to back up these critical packages. No rational person will attempt
> to argue that python in a *portage* system is not subject to the same
> constraints.
>
> But it's not working that way today. Ergo, it is broken.

maybe you should mention that on gentoo-dev.