Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:15:29 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>   
>>>> Good catch Volker.  I didn't notice that part.  He needs to become
>>>> very familiar with the -1 option but even that is not good in every
>>>> case. If it is a package that needs to be in world, then that option
>>>> shouldn't be used either otherwise a --depclean would remove it. 
>>>>         
>
>   
>>> He's updating, so packages that need to be in world are already there.
>>>       
>
>   
>> If he is using the command he typed in, his world file is going to be 
>> huge.  Read what he wrote again.  He is doing the updates individually 
>> without a -u or a -1 or anything else.  That means every time he 
>> updates, that package goes into the world file.
>>     
>
> I read, and understood, what he wrote, even if it turned out to be not
> wheat he meant. I was responding to your "If it is a package that needs
> to be in world, then that option shouldn't be used either otherwise a
> --depclean would remove it." which is not true if the package is already
> in world.
>   

I was making the point tho that if it is a new emerge and needs to be in 
world, then the -1 option would not add it.  If a person them runs 
--depclean, it would them remove the package and its dependencies.  I 
know for me at least, I rarely re-emerge the same package twice by 
hand.  If I change the USE flags, I let -n catch that.  If it is a 
update, I let -u catch that. 

Dale

:-)  :-)