From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6712713989A for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A3C914244; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0FE6314209 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUrum-00017k-3J for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:48:04 +0200 Received: from c-24-99-200-236.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([24.99.200.236]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:48:04 +0200 Received: from reader by c-24-99-200-236.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:48:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:46:51 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87bndtxjf8.fsf@reader.local.lan> References: <87lhd1ig1t.fsf@reader.local.lan> <20150824131744.GA2518@acm.fritz.box> <55DB1F2B.4060706@gmail.com> <87bndwiw0s.fsf@reader.local.lan> <87egirkojn.fsf@reader.local.lan> 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 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-99-200-236.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3w4n8+P1/Dm7mVj2eQRTyUsaBXs= X-Archives-Salt: 359206a6-bd07-4162-9bd4-313b02664bee X-Archives-Hash: 2ba2b39e06d6a0f2f8d60691ffb81388 Jeremi Piotrowski writes: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> The only thing I can say on my own behalf is that there was once a >> time when it wasn't so far fetched to start emerge -vC 'ing stuff. > > Many thing's can be removed with `emerge -C` and recovered from, but I doubt > unmerging packages in @system was ever a well supported operation... Note: Did I say it was `well supported'. `Not far fetched' is a good ways from `well supported'... Far I recall that little warning about ruining your system has ALWAYS been there.