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. -- Neil Bothwick If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it.
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