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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Sunday 11 June 2006 18:38, you wrote: |
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>> The man page says you're the author (of the man page anyway) of |
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>> emaint. I don't quite understand this utility. |
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> i just usually write all the man pages |
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>> I've noticed that emerge now has something called a "set" of which |
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>> "world" is such a thing. This is a relatively recent change |
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>> (not in documentation for emerge 2.0.51.22-r3). |
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> not really, portage has always had "sets" ... the "world" and "system" sets |
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I made the doc change a while ago to reflect this, but it probably |
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didn't get released until 2.1 |
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>> But even in the latest `man emerge`, this is still mentioned: |
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>> /var/lib/portage/world |
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>> Contains a list of all user-specified packages. You can safely |
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>> edit this file, adding packages that you want to be considered |
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>> in world set updates and removing those that you do not want |
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>> to be considered. |
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>> So my question is, if I can edit it like it says I can, why should it |
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>> complain when I do something like this?: |
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> dunno, i wasnt part of decision making for said change |
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We need to change the docs then; I don't think it's meant to be safely |
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edited; moreso it's meant to be edited with care when the corner cases |
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where that is needed are present. |
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