On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 01:03:00 +1000 Sam Jorna <wra...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 13/07/17 00:19, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > > It is YOUR comments that are funny, and going in a circular argument > > just to be argumentative and bringing nothing useful to the > > discussion. Which should be over now that bugs are filed.... > > I'm not trying to be argumentative or antagonistic, I'm trying to > understand how your replacement warning differs from what's already > available and adds value. It is similar to the warnings that exist now. To my knowledge, other than generic messages that are always there, and a user is likely to ignore as noise. Nothing to my knowledge will tell you that someone was not removed because it a was a dependency. Neither -c, nor -C does this. I get -C maybe unware, but -c is not. Even when adding -v to -c, it does not explicitly say the package was not removed because another needs it. That is assumed, and IMHO the user is left wanting as previously stated. > $ emerge -C apg > * This action can remove important packages! In order to be safer, > use > * `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to check for reverse dependencies > before > * removing packages. That is my point. That message is always there. The chance that it is ignored is very high. > Clearly, hence why I was trying to understand what difference your > proposal offered. But since we're moving on to serious things now, I > guess I /am/ done with this thread. I was proposing to provided further information to the user unique to that situation. Not removing because it is a dependency. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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