Patrick Börjesson <psychoti...@lavabit.com> posted 20090529201741.gb11...@nexon.nexus, excerpted below, on Fri, 29 May 2009 22:17:41 +0200:
> Why exactly would you want to use --oneshot for a "leaf package" that is > not depended on by any other package in the world set? If spam IS > depended on by any other package (recursively) in the world set, it will > be pulled in by --complete-graph, but that's not the case here if i > understand it correctly, thus it's a package that you explicitly wanted > installed, thus it belongs in the world set, and you should thus not use > --oneshot for it. I use -1 by default, here (via scriptlet), mainly so I don't have to worry about cluttering up my world file while emerging individual packages, just as I always use -NuD with my @system and @world runs. But for leaf packages, it serves as a sort of test install as well. Since I always do revdep-rebuild -p and emerge --depclean -p after every update (typically 2-3 times a week), then rebuild and clean as I need to, keeping the "trial merges" on the depclean list for a few days keeps me aware of them. If I know it's something I want to keep, I run a different scriptlet without the -1, but that's not often once a system is up and running with the normal working set merged. Meanwhile, I ultimately either emerge -C (or let depclean handle it) the "trialware", or emerge --noreplace, thus adding it to world. But experimental installs and their deps typically sit in the --depclean list for anything from a few minutes to a few days, until I decide whether I want to keep or remove them. If he was testing how the switches under discussion here worked and has a similar policy, I could easily see him using -1 by habit, even if he didn't explicitly reason that it was a test and therefore something he didn't want in @world. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
