On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:17:06 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > > Probably. There is rarely a good reason for having libraries in > > world. > > For us programmers it is often essential that we have one or more > library packages in world, since we might be using that library (or > those libraries) in projects we are developing.
Which is exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote "rarely" and not "never". It is also the case if you are installing some out of tree software that has dependencies in the tree, but I prefer to handle that by creating a set as I can then unmerge the set if I remove the software, instead of trying to remember wheat I added to world and why. > The question I think Todd Goodman is trying to ask is why a package in > world should be a candidate for depclean. Because the other slot satisfies the requirements of world, which contains an unslotted version. But then --update always tries to installed the newest suitable version. In other words, his system is broken. -- Neil Bothwick I can't walk on water, but I can stagger on alcohol.
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