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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 15:46:59
Message-Id: 20140603164633.20fb8634@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 18:26:48 +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2
3 > Quick question though. What's the benefit of using '-1' there? So the
4 > package doesn't get added to the world list? Or are there some extra
5 > benefits?
6
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.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory

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