On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:07:33 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Portage gives you a big red warning if you try to do this, but it > > doesn't, and shouldn't, try to stop you. What if you really want to > > remove Python? Postage is not the only package manager, so python is > > not compulsory.
> It doesn't here. Someone else did the same thing a few weeks ago with > no warning or didn't mention seeing one at least. I've read where > others have done this too. have changed. You're right. It used to do this if you tried to remove anything from @system, but this appears to > It just seems to me that portage should keep it so it can work. It > needs python to do that. Since portage is the package manager for > Gentoo, portage is the one that should be protected. Portage is A package manager, but if you are using portage to remove packages, it should be intelligent about removing its own dependencies. Taken more globally, maybe portage should warn whenever you are trying to remove a package that is a dependency of anything in @world. -- Neil Bothwick Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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