050519 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 2:12 am, Philip Webb said: >> i don't even do the approved 'emerge world' in maintaining my system >> & i rely on a home-made list of packages i've installed, > What is the world file > if not a home made list of the packages you have installed?
it's not home-made, it's system-made: anything you emerge (apart from dependencies) without '--oneshot'. if you update a pkg which you've installed to support something else -- Qt would be a good example -- , it gets dumped in 'world', unless you add '--oneshot'. then if you delete eg KDE , Qt remains in 'world' & keeps getting remerged without a good reason. i made a file using 'qpkg -I' & keep it upto-date by hand with Vim whenever i add/remove/update a pkg: that way i know exactly what's there & whether they're 'W'orld, 'S'ystem or [for KDE] (i mark them individually). i really don't understand why 'world' is set up the way it is: it's contrary to the fundamental principle of Gentoo, which is that the user decides what s/he has installed in their box. but i'm ok & others can wallow, if that's their preference (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
