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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: About "system" and "world"
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:29:36
Message-Id: 471D788E.2060904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: About "system" and "world" by Ryan Hill
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4 Ryan Hill wrote:
5 > Zac Medico wrote:
6 >> implement greedy atoms for the world set. I've been pondering the
7 >> idea of making world non-greedy for slots by default [1], since you
8 >> can add slot atoms to the world file to pull in any specific slot(s)
9 >> that you want.
10 >
11 > That would rock. Portage always insisting on pulling in the highest
12 > SLOT whether needed or not is one of my biggest pet-peeves.
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14 Well, you can already use SLOT atoms in your world file if you don't
15 want the highest available. Packages that pull in >=foo are a
16 different story though. I suppose we can add something like a
17 - --upgrade=minimal option that prevents pulling in new slots if they
18 aren't required.
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20 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: About "system" and "world" Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>