On 19:04 Wed 06 Jul , Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:31:03 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > > But I'd still be worried that adding a package that does not have > > dependencies satisfied to the world file would not be a good thing > > (unless of course you are using the emptytree option). > > I don't see why it should cause a problem. Portage is quite capable of > calculating the dependencies and installing them. The situation is no > different from uninstalling a dependency of an installed package. The > next emerge --deep world will reinstall it. >
Well, I only did it to see what would happen. I also tried moving /var/db/pkg to somewhere else and did emerge -uavD world, which had the same affect as doing emerge -ae world normally. So, my original advice was wrong it seems (well, more out of date than wrong, since I tried to do what the OP wanted to do a while ago, and portage complained about things not being installed). That said, it would still be one way of doing it, just not the simplest way. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
