Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

[Dale]

Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael
>> Orlitzky<michael@××××××××.com>  wrote:
>>> Using "emerge --update foo" adds "foo" to your world file. This is
>>> responsible for pretty much every package that incorrectly found its
>>> way
>>> into one of my world files.
>>>
>>> Is there any reason to desire the current behavior? I'd like to
>>> suggest that
>>> it be fixed, but want to be sure I'm not just being short-sighted.
>>
>> Pretty sure that's what -1 is for. I'm just getting the hang of it
>> myself.
>>
>>
>
> Well, I know what I'm *supposed* to do. My complaint is basically that
> I sometimes forget to add -1 with -u, and that bad things happen as a
> result.
>
> But why should I have to add -1 along with it? Is there any reason you
> would ever want -u to add a package to your world file? If not, we can
> avoid headaches in the future by making it do the sane (not harmful)
> thing.
>
>

Using -u used to work the way you describe but that was a while ago.  
The only thing I know of is to add --oneshot to make.conf so you don't 
forget.  I think they knew this was going to be a issue.  This is in man 
emerge:

--select [ y | n ]
Add specified packages to the world set (inverse of --oneshot). This is 
useful if you want to use  EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS  to  make  --oneshot 
behavior default.

The way I read that is that they expect you to add --oneshot to 
make.conf.  Like you, this makes no sense to me.  I would rather they 
leave it the way it was and then not needed the --select option at all.  :/

Then again, they add confusion so we can fix it in make.conf.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

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