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At Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:07:44 +0200 Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>> These examples are admittedly rather comtrived. My google search |
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>> result (posted a few msgs ago) gave the three step sequence you |
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>> quoted above. |
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> When googling for advice, you may want to include "site:gentoo.org" |
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> in your terms, and maybe even "handbook". |
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Terrific suggestion. Thanks. |
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> Searching for 'blocking site:gentoo.org handbook' gives a link to a |
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> Portage Introduction and one to a Quick Install Guide that although |
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> very terse are together clear enough, in my opinion. |
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>> However, if A was originally in world and not depended upon |
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>> by anything else, it will not be remerged. If A is still needed |
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> If A was in world, it was by definition not needed. Sure, the user |
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> wanted the package, but that is something else. :) |
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Cute. Not relevant, but indeed cute. -:) |
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>> it must be explicitly emerged. |
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> No need to tell the user that: she will remember which packages she |
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> wants to have installed. |
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A rather optimistic assumption. One might have originally emerged A |
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quite a *long* time ago. |
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Nonetheless, I must agree that your procedure will work nearly all the |
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time, and the extra coverage I offered may well be offset by the extra |
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complexity of the wording, which is not needed in nearly all cases. |
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allan |
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