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Patrick Börjesson <psychotical@×××××××.com> posted |
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20090529201741.GB11660@×××××.nexus, excerpted below, on Fri, 29 May 2009 |
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22:17:41 +0200: |
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> Why exactly would you want to use --oneshot for a "leaf package" that is |
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> not depended on by any other package in the world set? If spam IS |
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> depended on by any other package (recursively) in the world set, it will |
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> be pulled in by --complete-graph, but that's not the case here if i |
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> understand it correctly, thus it's a package that you explicitly wanted |
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> installed, thus it belongs in the world set, and you should thus not use |
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> --oneshot for it. |
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I use -1 by default, here (via scriptlet), mainly so I don't have to |
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worry about cluttering up my world file while emerging individual |
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packages, just as I always use -NuD with my @system and @world runs. |
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But for leaf packages, it serves as a sort of test install as well. |
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Since I always do revdep-rebuild -p and emerge --depclean -p after every |
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update (typically 2-3 times a week), then rebuild and clean as I need to, |
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keeping the "trial merges" on the depclean list for a few days keeps me |
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aware of them. If I know it's something I want to keep, I run a |
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different scriptlet without the -1, but that's not often once a system is |
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up and running with the normal working set merged. Meanwhile, I |
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ultimately either emerge -C (or let depclean handle it) the "trialware", |
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or emerge --noreplace, thus adding it to world. |
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But experimental installs and their deps typically sit in the --depclean |
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list for anything from a few minutes to a few days, until I decide |
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whether I want to keep or remove them. |
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If he was testing how the switches under discussion here worked and has a |
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similar policy, I could easily see him using -1 by habit, even if he |
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didn't explicitly reason that it was a test and therefore something he |
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didn't want in @world. |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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