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

[Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>]

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.


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Best regards,
Daniel

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