On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:45:31AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:05:45 +0100 Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:12:00PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:42:20 +0100 Harald van Dijk > | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | With ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-fetch, you tell it you don't want packages > | > | with RESTRICT=fetch, so portage /should/ complain regardless of > | > | whether the sources are available. > | > > | > Which is my point -- that's a stupid thing to request. A sensible > | > thing to request would be "mask anything that will require me to > | > fetch something manually". > | > | It's not a stupid thing to request to install only packages that allow > | you to emerge -e world if / gets corrupted. > > Huh? No, you're grasping at straws here. If / gets corrupted then > you're screwed.
I have personally had my / corrupted more than once, and I have been able to re-install everything without a livecd more than once too. -- [email protected] mailing list
