On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote:

> From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big
> no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really
> ran 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove
> now that I've got that cleaned up.

It's a list of packages you want installed on the system. Editing it
doesn't even remove anything, and if --depclean subsequently does, it's
hardly risky, since these are only user packages. You can break a system
by editing world because the critical packages aren't in there.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Interchangeable parts aren't.

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