[gentoo-user] Re: python-updater always wants to re-emerge certain things.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-09-16, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU> wrote:

> Okay, then, it is not a bug. The packages listed belong to the
> PKGS_MANUAL set defined the python-updater. The comment there
> says:
>
>    "packages that should be re-emerged even if they don't fit the
>    criteria (eg. ones that have pythong compiled statically)"
>
> So that is the designed behaviour. I would prefer it like this
> rather than having packages that need re-emerging omitted.

Definitely.

> That said, you can pass the flag
>
>    -dmanual
>
> to disable re-emerging those packages. (You can even fine tune
> which sets you want to re-emerge.) Read the python-updater man
> page for details.

Thanks.  I had seen the description about "manual" in the man
page, but it didn't quite sink in.

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