SA5: Things to not unmerge or remove.

[pjp]

Incomplete (?) list of things that should not be removed:

• /var/db/pkg
  
• /var/lib/portage

Incomplete (?) list of things that should not be unmerged

• baselayout
  
• bash
  
• binutils
  
• gcc
  
• glibc
  
• python (I unmerged python... ensuing problems....)
  
• coreutils (Killed my coreutils -- HELP)
  
• acl and attr if coreutils is compiled with USE=acl. Check with equery uses coreutils (emerge doesn't work after attr is unemerged!)
  
• portage (see bug 244975)
  
• libpcre if grep is compiled with USE=pcre (as explained by chithanh)
  
• eselect-python
  
• gmp (see bug 308461)

See links in parenthesis if you removed/unmerged something.


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2004-10-21: Portage-2.0.51 updates
2010-03-15: Added portage, libpcre, eselect-python,and gmp. -- desultory
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