Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 09/20/2015 11:07 AM, James wrote:
>> Daniel Frey <djqfrey <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>> For boost and ffmpeg, try running `equery depends <package>` and if no
>>> result comes back it wasn't installed from a dependency. If it does say
>>> another package is pulling it in, remove it from the world file by
>>> using: `emerge --deselect <package>` - in the case of boost it would be
>>> `emerge --deselect dev-libs/boost`.
>> Yea, many of us forget the --oneshot option whilst admining about.....
>>
> Yep, in my case I did it about 25 times over many years. Eventually
> you'll get enough crap in the world file that portage has a hard time
> updating. I usually remember --oneshot but if I'm tired or distracted I
> forget it. :-)
>
> Dan
>
>
>


To avoid this, I added it to my make.conf.  When I *really* want to have
something in the world file, I can either add it myself or use --select
on the command line to add it.  Result, shouldn't be anything in the
world file that shouldn't be there. 

I sometimes wonder why that isn't the default way.  I guess because it
would confuse folks for a bit and because it has always been that way.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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