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.
