[gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Higgins
I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages. As these packages were

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:49 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Dale
Michael Higgins wrote: I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed two *new* packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread KH
Dale schrieb: Michael Higgins wrote: I attempted to emerge 'twinkle', a soft phone, but whoever made the ebuild neglected to include a dependency on KDE libraries. Of course, since I don't have KDE libs, emerge failed. But before failing, the ebuild had pulled in, built, and installed

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread KH
Albert Hopkins schrieb: You should *never* use --prune. It's only there for people looking for interesting ways to break their systems. The fact that it didn't remove anything indicates that maybe you don't have multiple slots of a package installed and you just got lucky. Hi, are you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --prune: should it work?

2009-04-02 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 21:02 +0200, KH wrote: Hi, are you saying, that --prune is broken? No. That was the OP's assertion.