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On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:18:09 +0100
Oliver Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Christian Aust wrote:
> > 
> > What's wrong with adding those packages to "world"? After all, they
> > are
> > already installed on your system, and if I understand it right, will
> > be
> > updated next time you issue "emerge -u world". Isn't this what you
> > planned
> > to do by entering "emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -vp" in the first place?
> 
> Well that's easy: if i unmerge some package that is member of my
> 'world' list, an additional 'emerge depclean' will remove everything
> no longer needed (former dependencies of unmerged world favorites),
> but if everything is listed in the world file, nothing will ever be
> cleaned up, so i got all these packages installed but never used...
> 
> I want absolutely nothing installed which i don't need anyway !!
> 


perhaps you should've used "--deep" as an option to emerge, or in the
qpkg magic case, "--oneshot" ?


//Spider


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