At Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:07:44 +0200 Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> These examples are admittedly rather comtrived. My google search >> result (posted a few msgs ago) gave the three step sequence you >> quoted above. > > When googling for advice, you may want to include "site:gentoo.org" > in your terms, and maybe even "handbook". Terrific suggestion. Thanks. > Searching for 'blocking site:gentoo.org handbook' gives a link to a > Portage Introduction and one to a Quick Install Guide that although > very terse are together clear enough, in my opinion. > >> However, if A was originally in world and not depended upon >> by anything else, it will not be remerged. If A is still needed > > If A was in world, it was by definition not needed. Sure, the user > wanted the package, but that is something else. :) Cute. Not relevant, but indeed cute. -:) >> it must be explicitly emerged. > > No need to tell the user that: she will remember which packages she > wants to have installed. A rather optimistic assumption. One might have originally emerged A quite a *long* time ago. Nonetheless, I must agree that your procedure will work nearly all the time, and the extra coverage I offered may well be offset by the extra complexity of the wording, which is not needed in nearly all cases. allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
