On Thursday 04 February 2010 17:54:06 Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/4/2010 6:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > How about a portage feature request? > > > > The contents of @system can have dependencies. Put a setting in a conf > > file which means the system uses portage, therefore python is in @system. > > > > Without the setting, python does not get included in @system. > > Since the system package set is package manageragnostic, perhaps that's > the wrong place to deal with dependencies for portage or whatever? > > The package manager itself should know enough to keep itself functional. > It just seems odd that portage lets you use portage commands to break > portage. If I wrote a package manager in C# (as a ridiculous example) I > would probably make it smart enough not to let you remove mono.
Well, portage IS smart enough to not let you remove the toolchain or the C library. All of which is moot of course if the bloody compiler can't be launched -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
