It's pointless to have things in your world set that are by the very nature of the distro in the system set, it's just causing extra dependency calculations to no purpose. You dont add gcc to the world set either. or binhost. or libtools.
On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 21:27, n952162 <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/6/21 10:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 07:42:19AM +0200, n952162 wrote > >> This forum entry from 2018: > >> > >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1085556-start-0.html > >> <https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1085556-start-0.html> > >> > >> lists various possible causes, all of which involve complicated or > >> expensive fixes: > > In a worst-case, you could try skipping manifest verification > > altogether on the affected machine. You must do 2 steps to get that > > working. > > > > 1) In /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf set... > > > > sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no > > > > The default installed setting is "yes" > > > > 2) Add the line... > > > > sys-apps/portage -rsync-verify > > > > ...to package.use and then re-emerge portage. > > > > emerge -1a portage > > > Ok, that's good to have a way ... > > Question: (I know, this is old, but I'm still not comprehending it): why > wouldn't you want portage in your world set? > > >
