On Thu, 19 May 2005, Philip Webb wrote: > > I'd also like to see portage keeping it in alphapetical order. > > At the moment it is a mess because of that *too*. > > yes, that's a 2nd issue with the current state of things.
Not that it matters much unless you spend great amounts of time looking at the world file (I never have and I manage servers for a living). > BTW the response "if you do 'emerge -blah world' everything's hunky-dory" > ignores the fact that some -- most ? -- users don't want to update 'world', > which can take hours, eg if OpenOffice is one of the pkgs in 'world' > (currently there's an '-r1' update which fixes some obscure vulnerability, > which i checked out & it doesn't threaten my system with my use of OO). > ok yes, the next similar response will be "then don't use OO ... ", > but at that point i return to my other more important concerns of today. No - the response will be that its certainly possible to ignore that update by putting an appropriate entry in /etc/portage/package.mask. Also, you can update the rest of what's in world by running "emerge -uD package". > & i can happily dodge around the problem as i've been doing for a long time. Sounds exhausting - but that's fine for one box but not if you have a bunch of them. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
