From: "Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:53:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k00j9uma.fsf@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+w5ytVv2htJfyva@waltdnes.org>
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Hi,
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> writes:
> A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item
> indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout...
It's definitely necessary. Those packages provide links for vital parts
of the filesystem, like /bin/sh.
Why do you want to remove them? If there's something we failed to
consider when implementing app-alternatives, please let us know and
we'll try to rectify the issue.
> * manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives"
> * and then include "app-alternatives" in the file pointed to by
> PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=<whatever>"
>
> Am I missing something obvious that would cause problems?
Have a great day.
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Arsen Arsenović
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-15 1:47 [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ? Walter Dnes
2023-02-15 1:54 ` David Rosenbaum
2023-02-15 1:57 ` Michael Cook
2023-02-15 7:44 ` Walter Dnes
2023-02-15 8:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-02-15 14:10 ` Michael Orlitzky
2023-02-15 14:41 ` Rich Freeman
2023-02-15 15:51 ` Daniel Frey
2023-02-15 19:20 ` Wol
2023-02-15 19:48 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-02-16 4:09 ` Walter Dnes
2023-02-19 10:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-03-03 0:52 ` David Rosenbaum
2023-02-15 8:53 ` Arsen Arsenović [this message]
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