Re: [gentoo-dev] improving world & pkg

[Seemant Kulleen]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:43, purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote:
> i've been using Gentoo for  6 mth  (Linux & UNIX much longer)
> & am steadily learning how things are set up & work in practice.
> i'ld like to make a couple of suggestions based on that experience.
>
> (1) instead of Portage adding emerged pkgs to 'world' automatically,
> it sb upto the user to ask for that to be done by an explicit flag.
> i suspect present behaviour goes back to the beginnings of Gentoo
> & has never been re-examined: it doesn't work out well in practice.
> often, i find myself wanting to update a pgm wh is needed for something else,
> but wh i don't want to add to my 'world', wh is the end-products i do want.
> yes, you can explicitly exclude things w '--oneshot',
> but that has to be done each time & has no short equivalent.
>
> my suggestion is to replace '--oneshot' w its opposite '-w',
> wh wd explicitly tell Portage to add the pkg to 'world';
> otherwise, the pkg wd not be added to 'world'.
>
> (2) 'qpkg -I' will list all emerged pkgs,
> wh seem to be recorded in  /var/db/pkg/... (a set of dirs).
> however, it wb really useful to have a simple file listing them,
> wh wb updated at each emerge by Portage & cb annotated by the user.
>

I thought I was following along with what you said, but I definitely
lost track of all the different `w?' strings.  Can you try explaining
this again without resorting to short-hand?

Thanks,
-- 
Seemant Kulleen
Developer and Project Co-ordinator,
Gentoo Linux					http://dev.gentoo.org/~seemant

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