I had originally posted this to the Gentoo Forums, and was directed to post a bug report. Since it's gotten zero attention for two weeks now, I'll repost it here in hopes that someone can shed some light on the subject for me.
Here's the bug report: (Bug #13940) ----- To quote the docs: To save time and make sure your favorite packages are kept updated you may manually edit the world file and add entries for these packages. Users upgrading from old versions of Portage may need to populate this file. Recent installations of Gentoo and Portage should have a fairly populated world profile created during installation. I took this to mean that, rather than individually emerge each package I wanted to install, I could just edit the /var/cache/edb/world file and add the package names, then run 'emerge world' and they'd be installed. When I do, however, I recieve warnings, and the packages are not installed. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=173297#173297 for a more complete description, with examples of commands and warnings. ----- If anyone can offer any information here, I'd be much obliged. Thanks, Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
