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.