Neil Bothwick wrote: > The only time I use --oneshot for new installs is when trying a package > to see if I want it. If I do, I add it to world with --noreplace. If I > don't find it useful, my next emerge --depclean reminds me to remove it.
I use --oneshot, when the compilation of a package breks, which is a dependency of a package, that I want. Suppose, I want "a" and "a" needs "b". Now "b" breaks. I fix it, so that "b" can be compiled. Then I'd do "emerge -1 b". Another case, which hit me just recently: "a" needs "b", but it needs "b" to be compiled with a specific flag. Now "b" is already installed, but "a" can't get installed. In this case, I'd modify my package.use for package "b" and again do a "emerge -1 b". Alexander Skwar -- The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list