emerge kde-meta troubles
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:32:01 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Let me give this a shot. You don't really want every package you have
> installed to be recorded in the world file. It can make you do updates
> that you may not really need.
That's not the main reason for keeping world clean, since emerge --update
will update direct dependencies of packages in world, and --deep will
update anything upon which a package in world ultimately depends.
The main reason is that it stops your system being filled with cruft by
allowing emerge --depclean to work. If you put a library in world, then
even if you have removed all the packages that previously needed it, or
those packages no longer depend on it, portage will still consider it a
necessary part of your system.
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