On 5/13/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:47:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > As for proceeding with the emerge world operation I don't think > > there's any particular order you need to go in. The order shown is the > > was portage would handle it if you let it do it as one big group. I > > often opt for doing 5-10 packages instead of kicking off the world > > operation. In that case I'd do it in the order shown before: > > > > emerge -pv --newuse grep net-tools kbd binutils-config binutils > > Doing it this way will mess up your world file.
Mess up? > Most of the packages in > the list are dependencies that should be in world themselves. Should be in world... > Installing > them explicitly with emerge adds them to world, Should be in world, but adds them to world.. > with the result that if > you uninstall the package that required them in the first place, they > will remain as useless cruft on your system and not be cleaned out by > emerge depclean. ??? > > If you want to pick individual packages from "emerge -upv world" for > merging, merge them with the --oneshot argument to prevent them being > added to world. > Humm....OK, or go back once in awhile and clean up your world file by hand. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
