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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:03:32
Message-Id: 538DFFDE.30508@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils by Neil Bothwick
1 On 06/03/2014 06:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:26:48 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
3 >
4 >> Quick question though. What's the benefit of using '-1' there? So the
5 >> package doesn't get added to the world list? Or are there some extra
6 >> benefits?
7 > That is more than sufficient benefit. Having upower-pm-utils in @world
8 > could cause problems later on. For example, if you later decide to switch
9 > to systemd, you'll get a blocker on upower because upower-pm-utils is in
10 > @world.
11 >
12 > @world should contain only what YOU use, anything else is a dependency
13 > and should be left to portage to handle.
14 >
15 >
16 Understood. Thanks.