Re: [gentoo-user] Confused with the --oneshot option of portage.

[Jonathan Chocron <jonathan.chocron@free.fr>]

Le Mercredi 24 Mai 2006 09:55, Richard Fish a écrit :
> On 5/24/06, Jonathan Chocron <jonathan.chocron@free.fr> wrote:
> > So, here are my questions : With world being autogenerated
>
> Not sure I would call it 'autogenerated'.  It is more accurate to call
> it the list of packages that you have merged without the --oneshot
> option.
>
> > - If I emerge a library, like xvid with "emerge xvid", it will end up in
> > world. How do I revert that ? Do I have to emerge -C xvid and then
> > emerge --oneshot xvid ?
>
> That is one way.  You could quicken this with "quickpkg xvid; emerge
> -C xvid ; emerge --oneshot --usepkgonly xvid".  Or just edit
> /var/lib/portage/world by hand to remove xvid.
>
> > - If I emerge -Dup world, will the listed packages alkl end-up in world ?
>
> No.  Only the packages you specifically merge without --oneshot end up
> in world.  Dependancies of world or system packages that show up when
> you add -D/--deep are not added to world...
>
> > - If I first emerge a package, for example kmail, with emerge kmail, and
> > later, during an upgrade phase, do an emerge --oneshot kmail, will kmail
> > be removed from world ?
>
> No.  Only unmerging the package, or ediiting the world file, will
> remove it from world.
>
> -Richard

Thanks, that shed some light !

-- Jonathan


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