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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> 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...