Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Confused with the --oneshot option of portage.

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 06:17:03 +0300 (EEST), Daniel Iliev wrote:

> > That's correct. If you use --oneshot, world is not touched at all,
> > nothing is added or removed.
> >
> > There isn't, AFAIK, a portage option to remove a package from world,
> > although adding is easy with emerge -n.

> I hope this will help.
>
> 1) It apears there is a way to pull packages out of the world set. :)
>
> From 'man emerge', section "FILES":
>
> =============
>        /var/lib/portage/world
>               Contains a list of all user-specified packages.  You can
> safely  edit this file, adding  packages that you want to be considered
> in world set updates              and removing those that you do not
> want to be considered.
> =============

That's already been covered, I was referring to a portage option, a
complement to -n.

> 2) I'm not sure what happens when using
>
> "emerge --oneshot already-isntalled/package-higher-version"

Read what you quoted :)


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Neil Bothwick

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