Re: [gentoo-user] world favorites: pros and cons

[Rumen Yotov]

Daniel wrote:

>Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:18:20 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>But you'll still miss some packages this way - packages which aren't
>>>in the world file and which are also no dependency of *CURRENTLY*
>>>installed packages. Those are normally packages, which aren't used
>>>anymore and could be removed. I forgot how to find out, which packages
>>>that are.
>>>
>>>
>>emerge --depclean --pretend
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Your replies make me feel I haven't done wrong trying to put every
>single package in the world set. Actually in my fear not to miss some
>updates I use this script:
>---
>emerge -DuNpv <package-name> | cut -sf2 -d '/' |\
>cut -f1 -d ' '|\
>while read pkg;
>  do find /usr/portage/ -name ${pkg}.ebuild;
>done | sed 's/\/usr\/portage\///g' |\
>while read a;
>  do echo ${a%/*}; done |\
>xargs -n1 emerge
>---
>This way all dependencies get individually emerged and therefore
>recorded in the world file. Of course excluding some particular cases.
>For example:
>"emerge xmms" -> pulls-in gtk+-1.2", while
>"emerge mozilla-firefox" -> pulls-in gtk+2.8.
>
>So in this case the aforementioned script used with "emerge xmms
>mozilla-firefox" will individually emerge only gtk+-2.8 and gtk+-1.2
>would be emerged as dependency of xmms and won't get recorded in the
>world set.
>
>
>
>--
>Best regards
>Daniel
>
>
>
Hi,
In the contrary, i (at least) put in 'world' only things i emerge.
The reason - the world-file is smaller and eventually is scanned more 
quickly.
Unless you also use "-D|--deep" option, which also scans the deps.
HTH.Rumen
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