On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:17:38 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > There is no way that I know of to know before running emerge --sync > what has been removed from the servers and hence would be removed from > my machine. Why do Gentoo devs think they should remove anything from > my machine. It's my machine, not theirs.
The problem was caused by such a long delay between syncs. A profile is deprecated a long time before it is removed, during that period you would have received warnings about this and advised to switch to a currently supported profile. I understand your frustration, but the standard Gentoo portage setup isn't really suited to an environment where updates are only applied every couple of years. That's not really a good way to manage an Internet connected computer anyway, how many security fixes have you missed? -- Neil Bothwick The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
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