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150303 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> If you look at your world file, you should for each line |
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> be able to immediately say "yes I know what this is and I need it". |
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> Where "I need it" means "I need it directly" |
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> and *not* "I need it because some other package needs it". |
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> In most cases this means that libraries should not be in the world file. |
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> You'll rarely say "Yes I need Boost" : instead you may need LibreOffice |
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> and that needs Boost ... The smaller your world file, |
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> the more freedom portage has to resolve dependencies. |
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I was going to comment that I had 3 'lib' pkgs in 'world', |
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but then checked via 'emerge -cpv <pkg>' |
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& found that all of them -- /sys-libs/readline ncurses zlib -- |
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were in fact requirements for eg bash python vim kdelibs cups LO , |
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so now I've removed them & hope it will simplify Portage activities a bit. |
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