On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:19:44 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi Neil - could you explain why? - from man emerge: > --oneshot (-1) > Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world > file for later updating. > > This would imply that if you use oneshot, the system wont know about the > package and wont update it - not what you would normally want with any > package except under special circumstances. In fact, unless you have a > package you dont want updated, *EVERY* package on the system *SHOULD* be > in world?
World should contain only those packages you explicitly want, not their dependencies. emerge world takes care of dependencies at varying levels depending on whether you use --deep, --update or neither, but you do not want them in world. Otherwise, when you unstall packages, you end u with lots of cruft that emerge --depclean will not identify. -- Neil Bothwick When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?
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