050906 Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:06, Philip Webb wrote: >> 050905 Jason Stubbs wrote: >>> it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key >>> may break your system. How's about not warning >>> if there's more than one installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) >>> satisfying the profile atom that is being triggered? >> -- patch snipped -- >> I'ld say that the behaviour should be left alone >> pending a larger rewrite of Portage's handling of this kind of thing. >> Meanwhile, simply amend the warning to read in red letters eg > > Why? > >> "WARNING : removing this package may break your system !! >> Have you checked that you have a proper alternative installed ?? >> If you are not certain what you are doing, please STOP NOW !! >> >> Do you want to proceed (NO/yes) ? " > > No.
Sorry, but that's neither adequate nor polite as a response to the genuine problem which I raised as the original poster. The answer to your question should be clear from the rest of my message -- the present warning is misleading, as everyone has agreed -- & your other response needs some explanation on your part. Someone else has suggested that Portage can't handle a N/Y of this kind, but in that case please offer some confirmation at least. Do you respond so abruptly to your neighbours or colleagues at work ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
