On 5/16/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2005 15:22:16 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | I've put my /var/lib/portage/world file in alphabetical order a few > | times but it keeps getting put back into non-alphabetical order. > | What's doing this and why? > > Portage rewrites the world file whenever it changes it. > Wow - it sure does. Any thought been given to keeping it alphabetized? If not no big deal as long as I can do it myself and not cause problems for portage. As I work to clean up my world file it's nice to find everythig together in one place or another.
Anyway, thanks for the info although the craziness of how much it changes things seems very non-intuitive to me. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
