Yeah, I find this a little bit of an annoyance too ;-) I find myself doing "cat /var/lib/portage/world | sort" very often just to see the contents of the file.
But then again it is just a very minor thing. Regards, -AR On 5/16/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- If the truth can't set you free, a lie will save you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
