On Wednesday 03 February 2010 20:31:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > 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. Could be useful if implemented with an off switch
Or leave it off by default, users can enable it in make.conf if they wish. I often unmerge deps of things in world, but I know (usually) what I'm doing and will follow up with a --deep later. Annoying "Are you sure?" "Are you REALLY sure?" might make me switch to Ubuntu :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
