Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > > You could just emerge either or both, but that would add them > > to your world file, which is not necessarily the best choice > > (but maybe this is not important to you). > > Yes, I don't mind having it in the world file.
Better not do that. The world file should (mostly) just contain the packages that you actually directly use, not their dependencies. Having dependencies in there can later cause perplexing problems, if for example imlib or giflib were replaced by something else. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
