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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:51 PM Matt Connell (Gmail) |
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<matthewdconnell@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2020-05-20 14:46, n952162 wrote: |
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> > You're saying, if I don't recognize it, I can remove |
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> > it from the list? |
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> The world file should contain only *selected* packages, meaning packages |
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> you explicitly, purposefully chose and installed. That way you let |
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> portage handle all your dependencies. |
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> "selected" is the language from the emerge man page for adding/removing |
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> packages from the world file. You can use emerge --deselect if you |
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> don't feel comfortable removing these entries by hand in a text editor. |
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To elaborate - you get these entries any time you run emerge with a |
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package name without putting -1 or --oneshot on the command line. |
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If I want to manually update openssl, for example, I probably want to |
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use -1, since I don't want to constrain the installation of openssl - |
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it is just there as a dependency. |
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On the other hand if I'm installing firefox then I probably wouldn't |
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use -1, because that is an application I intend to use and I want to |
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make sure it is there, and it can freely pull in whatever dependencies |
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it needs. |
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