Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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I mentioned this on -dev once when this topic came up. Thing is, portage is
not the only package manager being used.
That's an important point.
Personally I think portage should
be the official package manager and if you chose to use something else, you
should know what not to do to the system.
Unofficially I think it is! ;-)
Going by a few folks on -dev, I sometimes wonder if portage even
exists. Sort of making a mountain out of a mole hill there.
Portage requires python but I
think one of the other package managers uses C or something. Remove C on my
rig, no big deal as far as being able to boot and re-emerge a package.
Careful. Can you really emerge gcc without at least one version of gcc
on the system? I didn't think so unless you've got access to a binary
somewhere, such as the install tarball or something like that. Even
that could be a problem. I did some cleanup a few years ago that
removed an old version of gcc and found I couldn't build anything
anymore. Embarrassing!
Most likely not but you can't emerge anything without python either.
Yet some have emerge -C python a few times. I read where one even
removed portage. I'm not sure how a person can think portage will work
if you remove it. o_O
Do
it on a system with some other package manager and you are in a mess. Point
being, it's sort of hard for them to list them since it depends on what
package manager you are using.
True, and a more experienced user can use equery, among other tools,
to determine what dependencies a package has. Problem was my previous
answer didn't mention that.
Ahhh, but equery isn't always right either. That has been shown on
this list before. It's a good tool but I wouldn't want to put my life
in its hands.
There are some packages I installed and still don't know much about. lol
Sort of funny in a way. Most of them "just work" so we don't need to know
much about them.
Actually, for me it's _most_ packages I know NOTHING about. This
machine has XFCE, Gnome and KDE. It has only 38 packages in the world
file and yet emerge -e @world would build 970 packages. That's a LOT
of unknown stuff for a user type like me to know anything about! (Or
honestly, I probably know _NOTHING_ at all about at least 900 of those
packages...)
Cheers,
Mark
I got more in my world file but you have more packages. Sort of odd in
a way.
Packages installed: 945
Packages in world: 76
Packages in system: 50
Dale
:-) :-)
