Richard Fish wrote: > If you later take X out of your use flags, and do an emerge -DNuv > world, the A no longer depends on B. But since it is still in your > world file, portage will assume you want this package, and continue to > compile updates for it with each new version. That can be a pretty > huge waste of time.
Thanks! Good point! --snip > Why not just merge the > top-level package, and if you don't like it, unmerge and use > --depclean --pretend to figure out what can safely be removed? > Because if I decide to keep it, all dependencies it pulls-in don't get updated until the top-level package starts depending on a different version of those packages. Actually this is the main reason I started this practice. "emerge --depclean" yells a big warning that it is broken. > And I don't necessarily believe that having everything in world > results in a significantly faster scan time than having only top-level > packages there. I would like to see actual proof of this assertion. > > -Richard No, no! I'm saying just the opposite - the more packages you have recorded in the world list, the slower scanning you get. -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
