150303 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > If you look at your world file, you should for each line > be able to immediately say "yes I know what this is and I need it". > Where "I need it" means "I need it directly" > and *not* "I need it because some other package needs it". > In most cases this means that libraries should not be in the world file. > You'll rarely say "Yes I need Boost" : instead you may need LibreOffice > and that needs Boost ... The smaller your world file, > the more freedom portage has to resolve dependencies.
I was going to comment that I had 3 'lib' pkgs in 'world', but then checked via 'emerge -cpv <pkg>' & found that all of them -- /sys-libs/readline ncurses zlib -- were in fact requirements for eg bash python vim kdelibs cups LO , so now I've removed them & hope it will simplify Portage activities a bit. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
