On 5/13/05, Russ Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:18:22 +0100, Russ Brown wrote: > > > > > >>Say I run emerge -pvD world, and ten packages pop out. > >> > >>I look at the list and decide that I want to emerge all but one of the > >>things on the list. > >> > >>How do I go about this without running an emerge command with nine > >>packages passed to emerge, and causing the world file pollution > >>described in this thread? > > > > > > emerge --oneshot package1 package2... > > > > > > Aha! So the rule is, whenever I selectively emerge a list of packages > returned by emerge -pvD world, I should always do the emerges with the > --oneshot switch? I suppose the packages that are already in the world > file won't be removed by that command, and the ones that aren't in the > world file don't get added to it. > > If so, that makes sense and makes me happy. Still means I have a really > messy world file though. :-) > > Thanks for that! >
Right. Me too. Now the question is how to clean up the world file without messing up the world file... I don't suppose there's even some ASCII art program that draws a tree of what's used by what to that I'd be able to see branches that need pruning? Neil said he dealt with the pain of this. I'd like to learn how to go about it. I have learned this morning that I probably have 5 machines that need to be looked after WRT this issue. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
