From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NlQDq-00074G-26 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:12:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2478EE07A7; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f182.google.com (mail-yw0-f182.google.com [209.85.211.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC377E07A7 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh12 with SMTP id 12so489046ywh.10 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:12:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=v2kDZlw4XUWRNOU3Pcgi7GKpURD6h7ZILUB1THU+K5w=; b=rHprCeaGkTAq3oQBfCEeUk70KOAgHEMDD2o4sW7Vm3kcuQr31/5VOkVnMMR8BsXiFt KLZ55GjTf3B5G37ZKbW/iVGWD8XR1LD6EmIROjtG3QSo1swnRl4MDjPa5Itdt43I3y6I AwUsH02Ereb3wW03Ci12C7jBJ5tlUqOX5h1nM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=oZvLimwOpSfJH8xUjt6OUrqlH9E4bwPUiYtQWI8qlHIs8q59a8kdjGbJBrWQeIkYzt SrfBIFm5QYqQ0P/cIK5y+3A1s2rS/PGGwZVjHUx/mUwtRHlmR6KDickzcWEgPANhz3pR QG2Asb95ffxhNQ/+cEB6SpQomukXdVGOunVAc= Received: by 10.100.70.17 with SMTP id s17mr2788504ana.140.1267290744500; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:12:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-94-66.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm983099gxk.11.2010.02.27.09.12.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:12:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B895272.3070701@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100223 Gentoo/2.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around? References: <306987.3768.qm@web65411.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <4B875E96.4040203@gmail.com> <332309.70376.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <20100226232036.2ecc7260@digimed.co.uk> <897612.13661.qm@web65412.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <4B88953F.2050407@gmail.com> <198957.3239.qm@web65402.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <20100227114123.08736010@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100227114123.08736010@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f1602d32-bd28-4657-a5a7-d241598a0434 X-Archives-Hash: b6ea3da470ade57ff8b5ffda19f86fe4 chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > 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. > > > Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical packages aren't in there? At least I am not the only one that leaves out the NOT sometimes. Dale :-) :-)