On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:32:01 -0500, Dale wrote: > Let me give this a shot. You don't really want every package you have > installed to be recorded in the world file. It can make you do updates > that you may not really need.
That's not the main reason for keeping world clean, since emerge --update will update direct dependencies of packages in world, and --deep will update anything upon which a package in world ultimately depends. The main reason is that it stops your system being filled with cruft by allowing emerge --depclean to work. If you put a library in world, then even if you have removed all the packages that previously needed it, or those packages no longer depend on it, portage will still consider it a necessary part of your system. -- Neil Bothwick I have a spelling checker, it came with my Pea See; It helps me too correct Miss Steaks eye mite knot sea. I ran these versus threw it, yew mae bee pleased too no Its word prefect in every weight; my spell cheque tolled me sew!
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