Richard Fish wrote: > > Not if you use --deep on your updates. Then dependancies are also > considered for updates. Some people here will tell you that --deep is > troublesome, but I am not one of them, and it seems like what you want > to do.
Then what is the purpose of: "emerge --update world" w/o "--deep"? > > There are 2 "problems" with --depclean: > --snip > IMO neither of the above 'problems' are particularly serious, or a > good reason to add every dependancy to world. Well, this means that one has to manually handle things as well as in the way I deal with packages, right? ;-) >> No, no! I'm saying just the opposite - the more packages you have >> recorded in the world list, the slower scanning you get. > > Yeah, well, I don't necessarily believe the reverse either! :-) > Well, I have a Pentium 2 @ 400MHz with 128MB RAM. I use it as a router and prefer not to even remember of its existence. :) Let's say once a week I update it, but it has only the base system plus iptables qmail and squid installed. My desktop is an Athlnon XP 1700+ (working at 1.9GHz), 512MB RAM. Compared to it, the router checks for updates about 2 times faster. I can't be precise, but if you insist I could do a "time emerge -pvuDN world" on both of them and send the results. The router world file has 90 lines, the desktop world file has 751 lines. ;-) -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
