Frank Peters <[email protected]> skribis: > However, this practice seems to be a bad idea. Since the time that I > installed urw-fonts, the package rpm2targz has been updated but I will > never know this unless urw-fonts also becomes updated. A similar situation > could exist for many other packages. Portage should by default enter all > packages into the "world" file.
Update with "emerge -NuDv world", then run "revdep-rebuild -pv" to look for more potential updates, then run "emerge --depclean -pv" to look for packages you no longer need due to dependencies. Use "emerge -n" if you want to keep any of those packages; that will put them in the world file.
