Re: [gentoo-dev] improving world & pkg

040407 Andrew Ross wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 13:43, purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote:
>> (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 updating 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.
> How many times do people directly emerge a package
> and NOT want it included in world?

quite often, in my case, but others may have different needs, of course.

> I want it in world so "emerge -uavD world" works as expected.

i wd never do 'emerge world' except w the '-p' flag:
doesn't it takes many hours ?  eg it wd want to update OpenOffice,
wh took  c 5,5 hr  on my fairly fast machine.
my practice is 'esync', 'emerge -Dup world',
then to emerge individual pkgs wh have jumped enough version points.
a lot of problems users report on gentoo-user
seem to involve some failure during an 'emerge world'.
however, i do realise that others have other preferences.

> Anyway, like Mike and Erik,
> I also think a short version of --oneshot would be good.

at least could we get such a flag added ?  '-w' seems to be free.

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