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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --oneshot and --update
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On 16/5/2011, at 7:35am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> ...
> * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it =
in @world
>=20
> * 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.