[gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-16 Thread reader
It all started like this: Using rsync I was getting an error when ever I used the `--stats' flag. The output said it was an error in the stack ... Rather than mess with it, I thought I might take the opportunity to sync portage and see if a newer rsync was available. Its been a mnth or so since

Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-16 Thread felix
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:23:35PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Anyone else want to chime in I am by no means an expert or even close personal friend of Pythion or gentoo, but that won't stop me. Portage installs pretty quickly; wouldn't it be possible to just do everything manually? It's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-16 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:23:35PM -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: Anyone else want to chime in I am by no means an expert or even close personal friend of Pythion or gentoo, but that won't stop me. Portage installs pretty quickly; wouldn't it be possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-16 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 22:23 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: It kind of makes me chuckle a bit that emerge -vC portage doesn't at least warn you that this will make a mess of your system (Are you sure?) # emerge -Ca portage These are the packages that would be unmerged: