091206 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2009 21:09:50 Philip Webb wrote: >> Please read what I said & hopefully think briefly before responding. >> If the pkg is already in 'world', it's 'emerge <pkg>'; >> if not -- the more frequent case -- , it's 'emerge -1 <pkg>'. >> That keeps everything in order (yes, you have to watch what you do). > Rather *always* use -1, > then you don't have to keep track in your head what is and isn't in world.
I know that from my home-made list of pkgs which I have installed, where they are marked with 'W' & system pkgs with 'S'. Yes, I do have to keep it upto-date as I do emerges. One of the major deficiencies of Gentoo is that it doesn't provide such a file automatically. > You will likely finish your update session with -p --depclean anyway, I have never used 'depclean' for anything: reports suggest it's unreliable. I do regularly use 'equery d <pkg>' & remove pkgs which are not required. I always move the entry to the 'removed' list in my installed-pkg index, where I can check for recent removals, if there is a problem (rare). > Much easier than trying to keep world in your head > and avoids world pollution when you will inevitably get it wrong, > which requires you to examine all 128 entries in world & hand-edit it. As I've tried to make clear, I'm careful when I do my weekly update. Also, 'eix-sync' output & 'emerge -Dup' show world pkgs in bold type. > Some things humans are exceptionally bad at and computers are > exceptionally good at. Let portage do what portage does best. Portage has improved a lot, but it's still far from perfect. Machines are servants, humans remain their masters. As I've said twice already, I've been doing all this for 6 years & have never run into the problems which are regularly reported by others. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
