On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On pon, 2017-07-10 at 17:40 -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> > Stop getting lost in the weeds!!!!
> > You all are making this about -c vs -C. I am not talking about that!
> >
> > LET ME CLARIFY....
> >
> > When using -C, portage SHOULD warn for dependencies like it does for
> > profile and set packages, PERIOD. NOTHING to do with -c vs -C.
> >
> > When using -c the output should say in layman's terms,
> > "Not removing package A because it is a dependency"
>
> William, I'm not sure if you're aware of how package managers work but
> checking reverse dependencies of a package takes significant amount of
> time.


for x in $(eix -I --only-names); do time equery g $x > /dev/null; done

The only single package on my system that took more than 2 seconds total
time was gcc. The idea that that is too much time to add to emerge -c or
-C, which in my experience already takes multiple seconds to run anyway is
kind of silly.

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