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

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:

> The only time I use --oneshot for new installs is when trying a package
> to see if I want it. If I do, I add it to world with --noreplace. If I
> don't find it useful, my next emerge --depclean reminds me to remove it.

I use --oneshot, when the compilation of a package breks, which is
a dependency of a package, that I want.

Suppose, I want "a" and "a" needs "b". Now "b" breaks. I fix it, so that
"b" can be compiled. Then I'd do "emerge -1 b".

Another case, which hit me just recently: "a" needs "b", but it needs "b"
to be compiled with a specific flag. Now "b" is already installed, but "a"
can't get installed. In this case, I'd modify my package.use for package
"b" and again do a "emerge -1 b".

Alexander Skwar
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