On Wednesday 18 July 2007 01:33:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:00:48 +0000, Thufir wrote: > > It seems that prune would break all sorts of software, yes? > > Yes, which is why the emerge man page states [SNIP] > > In particular, GNOME and X windows? > > No. In particular the toolchain. GNOME and X work quite happily without > slotted packages in general.
Well.. GNOME doesn't work all that well without glib-2.x and gtk+-2.x. KDE wouldn't work particularly well without qt-3.x either and gnupg-1.9.x would become pretty broken by removing gnupg-1.4.x... All in all --prune is rarely a good idea.. ;) -- Bo Andresen
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