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.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović