From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyGD9-0004EU-69 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:51:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k65MngvV018924; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:49:42 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.232]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k65Mhrfs027883 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:43:53 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i23so1069393wra for ; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:43:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lP5/02amao7ybYZUziyG1sWxo4KP4D8IsqYahnohQiAwLM+7jLlXR6TCUR31K8uTBgRFvgWERhJ1St2otISgw4V0ti9cI4tcJiuSG2k3ckogiH65NPOhbf0KQvj2SfYdkfCO2GSexUqf082nli1lL8mL+z7Z/K93REw0RhI537A= Received: by 10.65.182.8 with SMTP id j8mr6139283qbp; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:43:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ( [64.180.45.221]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id q18sm3744553qbq.2006.07.05.15.43.49; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:43:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44AC40A9.60202@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:43:53 -0700 From: Ryan Tandy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060627) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons References: <44AB8AEF.70104@ilievnet.com> <44AC3CC7.3010609@ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <44AC3CC7.3010609@ilievnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1e12d176-7bb3-46cc-8e40-c217e56bf446 X-Archives-Hash: 56b854e826fbbef07d0bf9394acfb159 Daniel Iliev wrote: > 5) The best reason for manual removing individual packages from the > world set is to prevent them from upgrading. I wouldn't call that a good reason. /etc/portage is there for that kind of thing. If you remove a package from world, and nothing depends on it, then it'll get swept up next time you --depclean without remembering to put it back first. If you remove a package from world, and something depends on it, it'll get upgraded anyway next time you -u or -uD. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list