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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> Now portage has no idea of which packages |
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> are there because you want them, which are there because they are |
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> dependencies of something you want and which are redundant cruft installed |
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> as a dependency of a package you no longer have installed. |
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> On your system, your packages, their dependencies and the cruft are all |
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> considered part of world. |
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That is correct. What are the disadvantages besides the longer seeks for |
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updates? |
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I have no problem with the redundant cruft - when I want just to try |
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some package I do "emerge --pretend" and record the list of dependencies |
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it wants to pull-in. If I decide the package is not useful to me, I |
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"un-emerge" not only the package, but also the dependencies it had |
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pulled-in during its installation. |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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