On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:28:24 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I suppose you could take that line, but then again, users get told all > > the time to delete/add entries to their world file in order to > > remove/keep packages. > > IIRC, portage will break in subtle ways if a package in is the world > file but not actually installed.
The one time it happened to me (and I don't know how) portage just threw up an error message. But I think the point was about adding installed packages to the world file. This can be necessary if a packages was originally installed as a dependency of something else that is no longer present, or if it was installed using the path to an ebuild. Adding it to world prevents emerge depclean trying to remove it. -- Neil Bothwick * <-Tribble # <-Tribble after Borg assimilation.
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