Philip Webb schreef: > 051218 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:27:50 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> > >>> Otherwise, I keep a list of all the packages I have installed -- >>> something Gentoo should provide automatically, but 'world' >>> doesn't, >> >> Yes it does. world provides a list of all packages YOU have >> installed. > > > Rubbish ! It doesn't list packages installed in support of another > during the same emerge command. >
This is exactly what Neil meant... if you install... oh, pysol, and it installs pysol-sound-server in support, only pysol will be written to world, because that is what YOU installed (emerge pysol). You didn't emerge pysol-sound-server explicitly; it was installed as a dependency, and dependencies are not written to your world file. However, if you then unmerge pysol, and run emerge depclean (-p), pysol-sound-server will be listed as eligible to be removed (as an orphaned dependency of an unmerged program formerly in your world file). That's how Portage works. Sorry you don't like it, but claiming that correct instructions on the working of the distribution's tools is just our "blinkered opinion" about "how one is supposed to do it & everyone else does" is,,, unjustified. But as you say, enough. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
