On Thu, 12 May 2005 12:47:36 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > As for proceeding with the emerge world operation I don't think > there's any particular order you need to go in. The order shown is the > was portage would handle it if you let it do it as one big group. I > often opt for doing 5-10 packages instead of kicking off the world > operation. In that case I'd do it in the order shown before: > > emerge -pv --newuse grep net-tools kbd binutils-config binutils
Doing it this way will mess up your world file. Most of the packages in the list are dependencies that should be in world themselves. Installing them explicitly with emerge adds them to world, with the result that if you uninstall the package that required them in the first place, they will remain as useless cruft on your system and not be cleaned out by emerge depclean. If you want to pick individual packages from "emerge -upv world" for merging, merge them with the --oneshot argument to prevent them being added to world. -- Neil Bothwick Q: Why do PCs - even modern ones - have reset buttons on the front? A: Because they come with Microsoft operating systems.
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