From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 07:51:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87757c79-0d78-9f7a-3f58-f95d71704ed6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+znxIkkPvNxLmOa@stitch>
On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more
>> bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but
>> managed differently.
>>
>
> Should be less, since you already have portage installed but not
> necessarily eselect-whatever.
>
I didn't even know eselect-whatever was even an option until this
post... It's not something I've ever used.
It does (at least to me) make sense for the package manager to enforce
these selections rather than some optional tool though.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-15 15:51 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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