Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:
> On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update.
>> However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file
>> once a quarter or so and remove anything that isn't a real
>> application, etc.
>
>
> How do you tell which is which?
>

I tell by knowing which files I want in @world. Everything in world
should be a package __I__ specifically want to use. Everything in
world (on my machines anyway) is something:

1)  I'd call from the command line
2) Need to write a little software myself, most specifically a library
3) Aid in displaying things, like font packages
4) Something required by Gentoo that I don't totally understand, like
a virtual package.

I just look through every so often and make sure everything seems to
meet those sorts of requirements. When I find a library or something
else then:

1) I make sure I'm clean with emerge -DuN @world AND emerge -p --depclean
2) I'll delete the questionable item
3) I'll see what happens with the two commands in #1

To me it's pretty straight forward, but I'm also not bothered at all
by the idea that emerge package and emerge -u package do the same
thing. A machine that doesn't have a package, when updated, should
have the package and it should (IMO) be in world, but that's just me.

HTH,
Mark

mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /var/lib/portage/world
app-admin/syslog-ng
app-benchmarks/bonnie++
app-benchmarks/iozone
app-cdr/cdrtools
app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools
app-editors/vim
app-emulation/virtualbox
app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle
app-emulation/vmware-player
app-forensics/chkrootkit
app-misc/screen
app-pda/gtkpod
app-pda/ifuse
app-portage/eix
app-portage/gentoolkit
app-portage/layman
app-portage/portage-utils
app-text/acroread
dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk
dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit
dev-util/strace
dev-vcs/subversion
kde-base/kde-meta
mail-client/mailx
mail-mta/ssmtp
media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bitstream-75dpi
media-fonts/font-bitstream-speedo
media-fonts/font-bitstream-type1
media-fonts/freefont-ttf
media-fonts/freefonts
media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
media-gfx/imagemagick
media-libs/exiftool
media-libs/mesa
media-sound/alsa-tools
media-sound/alsa-utils
media-video/dvdbackup
media-video/handbrake
media-video/nvidia-settings
media-video/smplayer
media-video/vobcopy
media-video/xine-ui
net-analyzer/nettop
net-dns/noip-updater
net-fs/samba
net-im/skype
net-misc/ntp
net-misc/rdesktop
net-misc/telnet-bsd
net-misc/tightvnc
net-misc/unison
net-misc/whois
sci-libs/ta-lib
sys-apps/dstat
sys-apps/hdparm
sys-apps/hwinfo
sys-apps/less
sys-apps/lshw
sys-apps/microcode-ctl
sys-apps/mlocate
sys-apps/portage
sys-apps/smartmontools
sys-boot/grub-static
sys-fs/dosfstools
sys-fs/fuse
sys-fs/mdadm
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:3.1.0-r1
sys-kernel/module-rebuild
sys-power/apcupsd
sys-power/cpufrequtils
sys-power/powertop
sys-process/iotop
sys-process/lsof
sys-process/time
sys-process/vixie-cron
virtual/jdk
virtual/jre
www-client/firefox
www-plugins/adobe-flash
www-servers/thttpd
x11-apps/mesa-progs
x11-apps/xclock
x11-apps/xhost
x11-base/xorg-drivers
x11-base/xorg-server
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers
x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev
x11-drivers/xf86-input-virtualbox
x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev
x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox
x11-misc/driconf
x11-misc/read-edid
x11-misc/xsnap
mark@c2stable ~ $