On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:45:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:11:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > No, that still doesn't work. When the user unmerges kde-meta, with your > > proposal it will unmerge X11. The next step is that the user emerges > > gnome which first emerges X11 back again. > > Except i this example you are likely to install GNOME before removing > KDE, otherwise you'd be left with no desktop. > > > This isn't so bad with a > > binary distro if the packages are on a CD, but on gentoo it's murder. > > If you have the disk space to spare, set FEATURES="buildpkg". Then > reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro.
The further complication there is that in this hypothetical situation you are also likely to be changing some USE flags, and the prebuilt buildpkg packages may need in fact to be built again against a new set of libraries. All of which is why I am glad I don't have to maintain portage and its associated tools :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
