Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:43:53 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote:

> That is correct. What are the disadvantages besides the longer seeks for
> updates?

What longer seeks? --update only check one level of dependencies for
updates, a few seconds at most. That's nothing compared with the time you
could spend trying to fix a broken system.

> I have no problem with the redundant cruft - when I want just to try
> some package I do "emerge --pretend" and record the list of dependencies
> it wants to pull-in. If I decide the package is not useful to me, I
> "un-emerge" not only the package, but also the dependencies it had
> pulled-in during its installation.

What if you installed something else with overlapping dependencies
between merging and unmerging? You'll break it because you have removed
its dependencies.

The world file is part of how portage manages dependencies, pollute it
with packages that should not be there and portage will not work as it
should.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

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