On Thursday 04 February 2010 02:04:36 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:29:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Taken more globally, maybe portage should warn whenever you are > > > trying to remove a package that is a dependency of anything in > > > @world. > > > > Could be useful if implemented with an off switch > > > > Or leave it off by default, users can enable it in make.conf if they > > wish. I often unmerge deps of things in world, but I know (usually) > > what I'm doing and will follow up with a --deep later. Annoying "Are > > you sure?" "Are you REALLY sure?" might make me switch to Ubuntu :-) > > A command line argument (--force?) would be fine, but you can't complain > it's annoying when you have just complained that portage doesn't do this.
I didn't make that complaint... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
