On Saturday 05 December 2009 21:09:50 Philip Webb wrote: > Please read what I said & hopefully think briefly before responding. > If the pkg is already in 'world', it's 'emerge <pkg>'; > if not -- the more frequent case -- , it's 'emerge -1 <pkg>'. > That keeps everything in order (yes, you have to watch what you do). >
Rather *always* use -1, then you don't have to keep track in your head what is and isn't in world. You will likely finish your update session with -p --depclean anyway, so anything that should have gone into world can be fixed with a quick -n followed by a --depclean for real Much easier than trying to keep world in your head and avoids world pollution when you will inevitably get it wrong, which requires you to examine all 128 entries in world and hand-edit the file. Some things in this world humans are exceptionally bad at and computers are exceptionally good at. Let portage do what portage does best. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
