From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:41:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100227114123.08736010@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <198957.3239.qm@web65402.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote:
> From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big
> no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really
> ran 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove
> now that I've got that cleaned up.
It's a list of packages you want installed on the system. Editing it
doesn't even remove anything, and if --depclean subsequently does, it's
hardly risky, since these are only user packages. You can break a system
by editing world because the critical packages aren't in there.
--
Neil Bothwick
Interchangeable parts aren't.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-27 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 4:06 [gentoo-user] Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around? BRM
2010-02-26 4:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-26 5:39 ` Dale
2010-02-26 14:34 ` BRM
2010-02-26 15:10 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-26 16:10 ` BRM
2010-02-26 18:30 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-26 18:01 ` Dale
2010-02-26 23:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-27 0:24 ` Dale
2010-02-27 2:15 ` BRM
2010-02-27 3:11 ` Dale
2010-02-27 4:34 ` BRM
2010-02-27 5:15 ` Dale
2010-02-27 11:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-27 3:19 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-27 3:45 ` Dale
2010-02-27 5:21 ` BRM
2010-02-27 6:53 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-02-27 7:21 ` Mick
2010-02-27 11:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-27 11:41 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2010-02-27 17:12 ` Dale
2010-02-27 18:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-27 19:16 ` Dale
2010-02-27 19:42 ` BRM
2010-02-27 20:16 ` Dale
2010-02-27 11:42 ` Neil Bothwick
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