Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Stroller wrote:
> On 16/5/2011, at 7:35am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>    
>> ...
>> * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world
>>
>> * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly
>> (emerge --update package) ...
>>      
> Will this not cause the package to be recorded in world?
>
> I think you update a oneshotted package with `emerge -1 package` (just the same as you used to install it in the first place).
>
> This probably doesn't arise very often, as you probably won't be updating oneshotted packages very often. --oneshot is fairly strictly a temporary solution - to fulfil a virtual in a certain way or just for testing how a package behaves with or without a graphics lib installed. If you want the package updated then you should record it in world.
>
> Stroller.
>
>    

Way back when, --update did not record to the world file.  That may have 
changed but I sort of doubt it.

Dale

:-)  :-)