On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:51 PM Matt Connell (Gmail) <matthewdconn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2020-05-20 14:46, n952162 wrote: > > You're saying, if I don't recognize it, I can remove > > it from the list? > > The world file should contain only *selected* packages, meaning packages > you explicitly, purposefully chose and installed. That way you let > portage handle all your dependencies. > > "selected" is the language from the emerge man page for adding/removing > packages from the world file. You can use emerge --deselect if you > don't feel comfortable removing these entries by hand in a text editor. >
To elaborate - you get these entries any time you run emerge with a package name without putting -1 or --oneshot on the command line. If I want to manually update openssl, for example, I probably want to use -1, since I don't want to constrain the installation of openssl - it is just there as a dependency. On the other hand if I'm installing firefox then I probably wouldn't use -1, because that is an application I intend to use and I want to make sure it is there, and it can freely pull in whatever dependencies it needs. -- Rich
