On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote:
A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item
indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout...
* manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives"
* and then include "app-alternatives" in the file pointed to by
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--exclude-from=<whatever>"
Am I missing something obvious that would cause problems?
You're missing a lot of manual busy work you would have to do
maintaining a package.provided since packages depend on stuff in that
category.
