Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: World file messed up

[Tonko]

I didn't know the emaint command, but I tried it and it didn't work.
It still wants to remove gcc-3 even though I need that for qemu-softmmu.

So I guess I need to use the -n to add everything manual to my world file....

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:27 PM, ABCD <en.ABCD@×××××.com> wrote:
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> Duncan wrote:
>> Try emerge with the -n/--noreplace option, which is sort of the reverse
>> of -1/--oneshot (and not to be confused with -N/--newuse).  If the
>> package is already merged, -n just adds it to the world file without
>> actually remerging it.  Then --depclean won't try to remove it or its
>> dependencies.
>>
>> I do this all the time since I use --oneshot in my (stub-scripted) normal
>> emerge commands.  Unless I know I want to keep it (in which case I use a
>> special version without the --oneshot), I'll use a script that adds -1 by
>> default.  That way I can try out a package and decide if I like it,
>> before either adding it to world using emerge -n or --depcleaning it and
>> dependencies.  Then, since I always use -a or -p as well, when I run
>> --depclean I'll get a list of packages I haven't decided on yet.  I
>> seldom run --depclean and let it do its thing, preferring to use emerge
>> -C to unmerge packages on the list specifically, if I've decided not to
>> keep them, or emerge -n to add them to my world file if I do want to keep
>> them.  If I've not decided yet, they just sit in the list, but that
>> doesn't happen very long for very many packages, and my --depclean -p
>> list is usually empty.
>
> I do something similar, but I (almost) never use emerge -C, instead, to
> remove a package, I use emerge --depclean category/package, which
> removes a package *only if* it is not a dependency of something else (I
> only use -C/--unmerge when I know that it isn't a dep, but portage
> thinks it is (eg, "|| ( foo/bar foo/baz )", when I have both foo/bar and
> foo/baz installed, portage won't remove either with --depclean in some
> cases).
>
>> Also note the --with-bdeps=<y|n> option.  Since I always want build
>> dependencies retained, I have EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS="--with-bdeps=y" set
>> (along with --keep-going and --nospinner, but the bdeps option is what is
>> important here).  Otherwise, --depclean will always want to unmerge build
>> dependencies as they aren't needed to actually run the package, only to
>> build it.
>
> Actually, --with-bdeps=y is the default when you use --depclean, exactly
> for that reason.
>
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Tonko