On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky<mich...@orlitzky.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is >>>> responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its way >>>> into one of my world files. >>>> >>>> Is there any reason to desire the current behavior? I'd like to suggest >>>> that >>>> it be fixed, but want to be sure I'm not just being short-sighted. >>> >>> >>> Pretty sure that's what -1 is for. I'm just getting the hang of it >>> myself. >>> >>> >> >> Well, I know what I'm *supposed* to do. My complaint is basically that I >> sometimes forget to add -1 with -u, and that bad things happen as a result. >> >> But why should I have to add -1 along with it? Is there any reason you >> would ever want -u to add a package to your world file? If not, we can avoid >> headaches in the future by making it do the sane (not harmful) thing. >> >> > > Using -u used to work the way you describe but that was a while ago. The > only thing I know of is to add --oneshot to make.conf so you don't forget. > I think they knew this was going to be a issue. This is in man emerge: > > --select [ y | n ] > Add specified packages to the world set (inverse of --oneshot). This is > useful if you want to use EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS to make --oneshot behavior > default. > > The way I read that is that they expect you to add --oneshot to make.conf. > Like you, this makes no sense to me. I would rather they leave it the way > it was and then not needed the --select option at all. :/ > > Then again, they add confusion so we can fix it in make.conf. lol > > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how > you interpreted my words! > > Miss the compile output? Hint: > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" > >
I'm not clear. Why does one ever bother with emerge -u package? In 10 years of Gentoo I've managed to get by with basically either emerge package to add something or emerge -DuN @world to stay updated. (or @system in the old days but no longer...) Not picking on anyone but in my mind emerge -u package _should_ add the package to the world file because any time I run emerge with a package name and without -1 I'm telling it to make it part of @world. If it's not part of @world, and is already on the machine, then emerge -DuN @world is the right way to get it and everything else updated. Just curious... - Mark
