On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote:
> Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> > > wrote: > >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? > > > > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire > > package around when I have another package installed that does what > > the first package is supposed to do? ;) > > > > > `emerge -pv --depclean sys-apps/net-tools` is more reliable than > equery for finding dependencies. It will tell you that net-tools is > part of @system. It is generally discouraged for ebuild-developers to > add dependencies to stuff that belongs to @system. Therefore equery > does not help you find all dependencies. > > If you are so eager to remove net-tools, you can try to replace all > binaries with symlinks to /bin/busybox. It should contain minimal > implementations for most binaries like hostname. Note that this can > seriously break your system if the busybox implementation is > insufficient. *Especially* don't use BusyBox tar. Been there, done that. -- Alan McKinnnon Systems Engineer^W Technician Internet Solutions 011 575 7585 alan.mckin...@is.co.za
