Petteri Räty wrote:
On 01/24/2010 08:20 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
2010/1/24 Petteri Räty <betelge...@gentoo.org>:
On 01/24/2010 03:02 PM, Ben de Groot wrote:
You can't have functioning package management without the hard
dependencies it requires. So both portage and python should be in the
system set.
Why should we keep redundant information in the list?
How is that redundant?
Cheers,
The problem the original poster wanted to solve is having a warning when
trying to unmerge something in "system". The best way here is to file a
Portage enhancement request and not pollute the profile system set
marking. The purpose of the packages file is to describe what needs to
be installed for a minimal system to work so it doesn't make sense to
pollute it with implementation details.
Regards,
Petteri
Since unmerging python results in a broken system, I'm not sure how this
"pollutes" anything. The system set is to maintain a working and
bootable system that can install packages and portage requires python to
work. What good is a Gentoo system without a working package manager?
Is there something that I am missing here? For me, system should
include the things needed for booting and for the package manager to
work. If it can't contain python then portage has a problem. As I
pointed out in another reply, portage won't let you unmerge itself but
it will let you unmerge a package that will render portage useless. If
I can unmerge python then portage should just go ahead and let me
unmerge portage itself too. At least it is easier to repair removing
portage.
Dale
:-) :-)
