Well, tar is not a part of net-tools, so Doug shouldn't have any problems there ;)
Rgds, On 2011-09-02, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:16:05 +0200 > Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote: > >> Am 01.09.2011 15:47, schrieb Doug Hunley: >> > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> >> > wrote: >> >> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway? >> > >> > 'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire >> > package around when I have another package installed that does what >> > the first package is supposed to do? ;) >> > >> >> >> `emerge -pv --depclean sys-apps/net-tools` is more reliable than >> equery for finding dependencies. It will tell you that net-tools is >> part of @system. It is generally discouraged for ebuild-developers to >> add dependencies to stuff that belongs to @system. Therefore equery >> does not help you find all dependencies. >> >> If you are so eager to remove net-tools, you can try to replace all >> binaries with symlinks to /bin/busybox. It should contain minimal >> implementations for most binaries like hostname. Note that this can >> seriously break your system if the busybox implementation is >> insufficient. > > *Especially* don't use BusyBox tar. > > Been there, done that. > > > > -- > Alan McKinnnon > Systems Engineer^W Technician > Internet Solutions > > 011 575 7585 > alan.mckin...@is.co.za > > -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
