From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:31:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201231093113.63882520@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1a3c55c7-fb90-5d3c-bb08-aa85378ca2f6@web.de>
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On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:34:42 +0100, n952162 wrote:
> Why do you specify -1? That's the most common advice I get for avoiding
> slot-conflicts, but I can't imagine a system without cups.
To avoid adding to your world file. If a package needs to be in @world,
it will already be there to -1 will be harmless. In the case of CUPS, you
don't want it in world as it is a dependency of any program that wants to
be able to print.
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-31 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-30 22:17 [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp? n952162
2020-12-30 23:33 ` Jack
2020-12-31 0:29 ` Michael
2020-12-31 7:34 ` n952162
2020-12-31 9:31 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2020-12-31 11:03 ` Michael
2020-12-31 13:14 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-01 19:47 ` n952162
2021-01-01 19:50 ` n952162
2021-01-01 20:01 ` n952162
2020-12-31 7:20 ` n952162
2020-12-31 9:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-01-01 20:13 ` [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp? [RESOLVED] n952162
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