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. Most of the packages in > the list are dependencies that should be in world themselves. Installing > them explicitly with emerge 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.
OK, so I looked at my world file (hope it's the right one - /var/lib/portage/world) on my Compaq laptop. This laptop is 18 months young running Gentoo. I'd done this piece by piece emerge install thing forever on this. I run all the standard app, plus Gnome, KDE and fluxbox. I've got a few browsers and just about every audio app supported by Gentoo. I run xine to watch movies. It's a great system. My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How long it yours? Just glancing through the file I spot very few things that wouldn't be installed whether they were in in the world file or not, but I do have 28 gnome entries and certainly some of them are not end user Gnomish things, like gnome-base/librsvg. I presume this is the 'cruft' you're talking about? I have a problem with Portage and Gnome specifically. If I want to emerge Gnome portage wants to emerge in Evolution. I don't use Evolution but I didn't know how to get what I wanted (Gentoo is about choice even if Gnome is not...) so I emerged the pieces and got what I wanted. (And a longer world file...) How should I have gone about getting Gnome without Evolution? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
