On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:53:41 +0900, daid kahl wrote: > On that note, I'd like to ask a question I was going to post or email > about. Can I comment the world file. More interestingly, is there a > way to pass portage a comment to stick in world above the package? > This would be really damn useful. > > For example, sometimes I'm testing things, and I really do mean to > install a package without oneshot. But I might be installing a bunch > of things to try to get some third-party dependencies resolved, and > later I don't need all them (or I'd like to know why I put it > there!!).
I use sets for that. Create a file in /etc/portage/sets containing the atom of the package(s) you want to install. You can either add comments to this file or give it an explanatory name (or both), then emerge @setname. I used to use --oneshot for testing, but testing something with a lot of dependencies made --depclean useless, so I use temporary sets now. -- Neil Bothwick I am Barry Norman of the Borg - you will be assimilated - and why not?
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