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On Wednesday 07 September 2005 04:04, Ben Munat wrote: |
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> Christopher Schwerdt wrote: |
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> Curious. When I run "glsa-check -t all" and it comes back with 17 hits. |
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> However, I have a script that runs "emerge sync" and "emerge -p world" |
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> every night and another one that runs "emerge -puD world" every Saturday. I |
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> am currently completely up to date on these except libxml wants to be |
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> updated on "-uD". |
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> So, how do I wind up with 17 packages that need to be updated? Hmm, perhaps |
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> these are all packages on my system that are neither in my world file nor |
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> depdencies of stuff in my world file? Would that then make them orphaned? |
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> And theoretically safe to delete? How does one find out if a specific |
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> package is required by any other packages again? |
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Only packages you explicitly emerge are recorded in the world profile |
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(/var/lib/portage/world) dependencies are not. See the man pages for portage |
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and emerge for more details. |
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HTH |
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