Re: [gentoo-user] No 'libs' in world file?

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

150303 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> If you look at your world file, you should for each line
> be able to immediately say "yes I know what this is and I need it".
> Where "I need it" means "I need it directly"
> and *not* "I need it because some other package needs it". 
> In most cases this means that libraries should not be in the world file. 
> You'll rarely say "Yes I need Boost" : instead you may need LibreOffice
> and that needs Boost ...  The smaller your world file,
> the more freedom portage has to resolve dependencies.

I was going to comment that I had  3  'lib' pkgs in 'world',
but then checked via 'emerge -cpv <pkg>'
& found that all of them --  /sys-libs/readline ncurses zlib  --
were in fact requirements for eg  bash python vim kdelibs cups LO ,
so now I've removed them & hope it will simplify Portage activities a bit.

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