From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:47:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+w5ytVv2htJfyva@waltdnes.org> (raw)
A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item
indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout...
* 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?
--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.
next reply other threads:[~2023-02-15 1:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-15 1:47 Walter Dnes [this message]
2023-02-15 1:54 ` [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ? 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
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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