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Stroller wrote: |
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> On 16/5/2011, at 7:35am, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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>> * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world |
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>> * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly |
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>> (emerge --update package) ... |
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> Will this not cause the package to be recorded in world? |
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> I think you update a oneshotted package with `emerge -1 package` (just the same as you used to install it in the first place). |
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> This probably doesn't arise very often, as you probably won't be updating oneshotted packages very often. --oneshot is fairly strictly a temporary solution - to fulfil a virtual in a certain way or just for testing how a package behaves with or without a graphics lib installed. If you want the package updated then you should record it in world. |
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> Stroller. |
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Way back when, --update did not record to the world file. That may have |
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changed but I sort of doubt it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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