On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 02:36 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > For a system package, this does not seem to work: > > mutable root # emerge -Cav =dev-lang/python-2.4.1 > >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge: > > > !!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'dev-lang/python' > !!! This could be damaging to your system. > > >>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting... > >>> (Control-C to abort)... > Press Ctrl-C to Stop in: 10 9 8 7 6 > > Exiting on signal 2 > > As you see, I did use -a, and maybe it was going to ask me in 4 more > seconds (as I do get the correct "These are the packages I *would* > unmerge"), but the very fact that there is an immediate countdown (which > does not happen when you are "asking" first) is scary enough that I > would never let the countdown finish just to see if Portage really *was* > going to wait for me to confirm before proceeding. At least not without > doing the quickpackages first.
It does ask after it finishes the countdown. -- My Gentoo stuff: http://varnerfamily.org/pvarner/gentoo -- [email protected] mailing list
