58979 – Add a commad line switch to emerge telling it to avoid updating the worldfile

Bug 58979 - Add a commad line switch to emerge telling it to avoid updating the worldfile

Summary: Add a commad line switch to emerge telling it to avoid updating the worldfile

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-07-31 02:17 UTC by Anakim Border
Modified:	2004-07-31 02:19 UTC (History)
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Description Anakim Border 2004-07-31 02:17:19 UTC

There are times when one wants to recompile packages not listed in the worldfile (and that is because they were originally emerged as dependencies). Doing that, however, updates the worldfile with the result that those packages won't ever be catched by a depclean.
Adding a "do-not-touch-worldfile" commad line switch to emerge would fix that.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-31 02:19:14 UTC

emerge --oneshot
:)