* Re: [gentoo-user] prune dangers
@ 2007-08-05 14:27 99% ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
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From: Bo Ørsted Andresen @ 2007-08-05 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Wednesday 18 July 2007 01:33:10 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:00:48 +0000, Thufir wrote:
> > It seems that prune would break all sorts of software, yes?
>
> Yes, which is why the emerge man page states
[SNIP]
> > In particular, GNOME and X windows?
>
> No. In particular the toolchain. GNOME and X work quite happily without
> slotted packages in general.
Well.. GNOME doesn't work all that well without glib-2.x and gtk+-2.x. KDE
wouldn't work particularly well without qt-3.x either and gnupg-1.9.x would
become pretty broken by removing gnupg-1.4.x... All in all --prune is rarely
a good idea.. ;)
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Bo Andresen
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