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Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: keanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:57 am
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does /var/cache/edb/world behave as intended?
> On Friday 31 January 2003 17:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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.
>
> emerge automaticly adds any program your emerge to the world file
> (but not the
> depends) .... (i think!)
>
That's correct, but my question is, if I manually packages to the world file,
shouldn't emerge catch them un update and install them, rather than just complaining
that they're not installed?
Doug Gorley | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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