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From: Ryan Tandy <tarpman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:51:11
Message-Id: 44AC40A9.60202@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons by Daniel Iliev
1 Daniel Iliev wrote:
2 > 5) The best reason for manual removing individual packages from the
3 > world set is to prevent them from upgrading.
4
5 I wouldn't call that a good reason. /etc/portage is there for that kind
6 of thing. If you remove a package from world, and nothing depends on
7 it, then it'll get swept up next time you --depclean without remembering
8 to put it back first. If you remove a package from world, and something
9 depends on it, it'll get upgraded anyway next time you -u or -uD.
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