From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fy7j0-0001Ok-Om for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:47:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k65DgDWX011870; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:42:13 GMT Received: from pythagoras.zen.co.uk (pythagoras.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.140]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k65DLhpP016765 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:21:43 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by pythagoras.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Fy7K2-000807-Tm for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:21:42 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062061424980 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:21:42 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:21:42 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons Message-ID: <20060705142142.2ce7e2ef@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44ABB409.4080003@ilievnet.com> References: <44AB8AEF.70104@ilievnet.com> <44AB91EC.9070701@mid.message-center.info> <20060705115509.2905ae6d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <44AB9E70.6010205@ilievnet.com> <20060705131400.3ae53735@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <44ABB409.4080003@ilievnet.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0-rc2 (GTK+ 2.8.19; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_nSXdeG7U3X9vLjN0sVN5M46; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Pythagoras-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: c40519d2-1911-4431-8fe1-a36a95bd7c5d X-Archives-Hash: 27aa1fff992b4383e0e773c1de1bd19d --Sig_nSXdeG7U3X9vLjN0sVN5M46 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. --Sig_nSXdeG7U3X9vLjN0sVN5M46 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEq7zmum4al0N1GQMRAukjAKC/ClMjIaRgQyK59qPhs4FBt2xVGwCfXbVM NwbUgm5odcMqm2eBXXubN5c= =4/qG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_nSXdeG7U3X9vLjN0sVN5M46-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list