On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:29:16 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > 1) I install "a" which pulls-in "c" > 2) I *manually* install "c". I install "a" > 3) I Install "b". "b" depends on "c". "b" doesn't pull-in "c" because > "c" is already *manually* installed along with "a" > 4) I uninstall "a" > 5) I *manually* uninstall "c" > 6) "b" becomes broken because "c" is no longer in the system > > > Lets investigate further: > > > "emerge --deep --update world" will install "c", won't it? > > "emerge b" or "emerge c" will solve the problem, won't it?
so you go to a lot of trouble to circumvent portage's dependency handling, then you rely on portage to fix things up after your break them. You need to keep lists of what you have merged and unmerged simply to compensate for having broken portage's own list for no good reason. What happens if you reboot after unmerging "c", and its absence causes the system to fail to boot? What if you remove something that stops emerge working? Gentoo is all about choice, so you are free to choose to use it like this, just as you are free to do "rm -fr /*". But don't expect someone to come up with a magic fix when things get screwed up. -- Neil Bothwick Isn't 'Criminal Lawyer' rather redundant?
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