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

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 7/5/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> > Now portage has no idea of which packages
> > are there because you want them, which are there because they are
> > dependencies of something you want and which are redundant cruft installed
> > as a dependency of a package you no longer have installed.
> >
> > On your system, your packages, their dependencies and the cruft are all
> > considered part of world.
> >
> >
>
> That is correct. What are the disadvantages besides the longer seeks for
> updates?
>
> 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.
>
>

You're manually doying stuff that portage should do. This breaks
portage system, gives you more trouble (because you have to manually
"undo" stuff in order to not break your dependency list) and have
turned the whole dependency check lists and ebuils dependency check
useless. A "emerge --update --deep world" for you is a "emerge world".
You put some of the work of portage on your own hands, don't be
surprised if that breaks something.

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