El Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:55:43 -0500 Walter Dnes dijo: Hi! > That's not necessary. I regularly... > - start off with a basic text-console-only install > - and then I fire up "emerge gimp" before heading off to work > > By the time I get home from work, Portage has pulled in and built the > approximately 40 packages necessary to get a basic X GUI running with > TWM and has built Gimp. "rpm-hell"... what's that??? Portage rocks!!! > > The basic X support doesn't show up in /var/lib/portage/world. It's > installed as dependancy for various applications. Another cute trick is > to "emerge bbkeys" without first "emerge blackbox". blackbox doesn't > show up in world either. It's a dependancy for bbkeys. > > [m3000][root][~] grep -c ^. /var/lib/portage/world > 54 > > ...yes folks, only 54 entries in world for a full-featured desktop with > a whole bunch of apps. Like I said, all the dependancies end up as > dependancies.
Maybe I don't understand the benefits of your action, but what advantages do you get doing so? I always do a emerge -uD world, so package and its dependency... I do not care if dependency it's in world or not... Please, could you please explain a little more your post? I'm intrigued... Cheers! -- Arnau Bria http://blog.emergetux.net Por regla general, las chicas malas suelen ser las que están más buenas. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
