Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Now portage has no idea of which packages > are there because you want them, which are there because they are > dependencies of something you want and which are redundant cruft installed > as a dependency of a package you no longer have installed. > > On your system, your packages, their dependencies and the cruft are all > considered part of world. > >
That is correct. What are the disadvantages besides the longer seeks for updates? I have no problem with the redundant cruft - when I want just to try some package I do "emerge --pretend" and record the list of dependencies it wants to pull-in. If I decide the package is not useful to me, I "un-emerge" not only the package, but also the dependencies it had pulled-in during its installation. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
