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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 22:01:16
Message-Id: 2554174.mvXUDI8C0e@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour by Rich Freeman
1 On Monday, 3 August 2020 20:15:45 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:01 PM Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 > > On Monday, 3 August 2020 14:18:22 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
4 > > > Sounds like you want --usepkgonly y --binpkg-respect-use y (the first
5 > > > is the same as -K). At least, I think that is what you're getting at
6 > > > - I could be misunderstanding your goal.
7 > >
8 > > Not exactly. I'm finding that emerge -K installs every package whose
9 > > binpkg
10 > > exists, regardless of whether it's installed in the system already. Emerge
11 > > -k doesn't. Neither of them takes any notice of what packages are
12 > > installed in the system, and I think they should.
13 >
14 > -k/K have nothing to do with package selection - just the use of
15 > binary packages.
16 >
17 > If you run emerge @core then anything in @core should get installed.
18 > Adding -K or -k will either allow or force the use of binary packages,
19 > but it shouldn't cause stuff that isn't in @core to get installed
20 > unless it is a dependency.
21
22 That's exactly the problem. It does.
23
24 --
25 Regards,
26 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>