On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:39:52 -0700 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > I am probably in that very situation. My world file is 5794 lines > long. I didn't know about -1 and frankly don't understand it. If I > remerge a package which is not in world, why is it added to world? I > had seen a few vague references to -1, but just assumed that portage > was smart enough to only add new packages.
Could be a good idea, btw, but if you're _rebuilding_ the package, not just using something like '--noreplace'. Worth a GLEP, prehaps? > But now is now, and I have a huge world file. How does one clean up > such a beast? I go through my /var/lib/portage/world file in nano from time to time, just killing (^K) the lines I don't know about (mostly it's some packages I checked out and forgot to remove), looks easy enough, since it has no place in the @world, if you don't know about it. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net
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