050905 Jason Stubbs wrote: > virtual/editor is a terrible case. :/ > it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key > may break your system. How's about not warning > if there's more than one installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) > satisfying the profile atom that is being triggered? -- patch snipped --
I'ld say that the behaviour should be left alone pending a larger rewrite of Portage's handling of this kind of thing. Meanwhile, simply amend the warning to read in red letters eg "WARNING : removing this package may break your system !! Have you checked that you have a proper alternative installed ?? If you are not certain what you are doing, please STOP NOW !! Do you want to proceed (NO/yes) ? " Answering 'yes' would start the usual countdown (i have 10 sec ); any other answer would cancel the unmerge. That has the virtue of giving the user accurate information & leaving the final choice -- Gentoo-style -- upto him/her. Oh & while we're on the subject, why is Joe a virtual, but not E3 ... ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
