On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Neil Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > I suggest you read the subject header and the original post. It is quite > > clear what Mark was talking about, and these files are removed by emerge > > --sync. > > > > > > I have done that - in fact, I have been following the entire thread. > However, it cannot be assumed that everyone does. That particular post could > easily have misled someone just dipping in for the first time into believing > that "emerge --sync" is dangerous. I felt it necessary to correct that. :) >
Neil, I went back and read my original post to better underdtand your point. In one way I completely agree with you. Personally I think the post was *very* clear about what the problem was and how it came to be. However if I read the last line in isolation, quoted here: "Did this machine just get messed up over time and I didn't notice or did emerge --sync remove the profile from the system thus breaking everything?" then I would agree that the use of the word pair 'break everything' was unfortunate. It would have been more accurate had I written 'break emerge'. Clearly 'everything' was NOT broken on that machine after running emerge --sync. To me the post was clear and coherrant but I could certainly agree that a complete newbie *might* have found that last line frightening if they hadn't correctly understood that I was only talking about my ability to run emerge. I was actually pretty careful about how I wrote the original post but that one got by me. Sorry! Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
