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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: Gentoo Users List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Difference between --update and --emptytree?
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 01:49:20
Message-Id: 20130331014901.GA3880@waltdnes.org
1 Did an update today. After the update, I checked again...
2
3 [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --update --changed-use world
4
5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
6
7 Calculating dependencies... done!
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9 Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
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11 Good... nothing to add... I think. But replace "--update" with
12 "--emptytree", and a whole bunch of new and updated stuff shows up. Is
13 there a logical explanation? Should I emerge world? Or just the new
14 and updated stuff (with the -1 flag)? Here are listings of the new and
15 updated stuff...
16
17 [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --changed-use --emptytree world | grep ' N '
18 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.210.0-r2 0 kB
19 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Package-Constants-0.20.0-r2 0 kB
20 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.100.0-r2 0 kB
21 [ebuild N ] perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.60.0 133 kB
22 [ebuild N ] perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.60.0 231 kB
23 [ebuild N ] perl-core/Params-Check-0.360.0 12 kB
24 [ebuild N ] perl-core/Module-CoreList-2.800.0 57 kB
25 [ebuild N ] perl-core/Module-Load-0.240.0 6 kB
26 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Params-Check-0.360.0 0 kB
27 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.60.0 0 kB
28 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.60.0 0 kB
29 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Module-CoreList-2.800.0 0 kB
30 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Module-Load-0.240.0 0 kB
31 [ebuild N ] perl-core/IO-Compress-2.60.0 238 kB
32 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.60.0 0 kB
33 [ebuild N ] perl-core/Archive-Tar-1.900.0 57 kB
34 [ebuild N ] perl-core/Module-Load-Conditional-0.540.0 13 kB
35 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Module-Load-Conditional-0.540.0 0 kB
36 [ebuild N ] perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.780.0 27 kB
37 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.780.0 0 kB
38 [ebuild N ] perl-core/CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.122.0 21 kB
39 [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.122.0 0 kB
40 [ebuild N ] dev-lang/vala-0.18.1:0.18 USE="{-test} -vapigen" 0 kB
41
42 [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --changed-use --emptytree world | grep ' U '
43 [ebuild U ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.5g [9.0.0.4g] 6 kB
44 [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-common-3.6.0:3 [3.1.0:3] 141 kB
45 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/nasm-2.10.07 [2.10.05] USE="-doc" 665 kB
46 [ebuild U ] perl-core/version-0.990.100 [0.940.0] 105 kB
47 [ebuild U ] perl-core/Test-Harness-3.260.0 [3.230.0] 288 kB
48 [ebuild U ] perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.270.0 [1.230.0] 68 kB
49 [ebuild U ] perl-core/CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.8.0 [0.4.0] 31 kB
50 [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-Manifest-1.610.0 [1.580.0] 29 kB
51 [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-Install-1.540.0 [1.54] 0 kB
52 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-version-0.990.100 [0.940.0] 0 kB
53 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.270.0 [1.230.0-r2] 0 kB
54 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.8.0 [0.4.0] 0 kB
55 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.260.0 [3.230.0-r3] 0 kB
56 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest-1.610.0 [1.580.0-r1] 0 kB
57 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.540.0 [1.54] 0 kB
58 [ebuild U ] perl-core/Module-Metadata-1.0.11 [1.0.6] 27 kB
59 [ebuild U ] perl-core/Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.440.400 [1.440.100] 8 kB
60 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.440.400 [1.440.100-r2] 0 kB
61 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Module-Metadata-1.0.11 [1.0.6] 0 kB
62 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Archive-Tar-1.900.0 [1.54] 0 kB
63 [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.205 [0.27.03] 34 kB
64 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.205 [0.27.03] 0 kB
65 [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.640.0 [6.620.0] 412 kB
66 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.640.0 [6.620.0] 0 kB
67 [ebuild U ] perl-core/CPAN-Meta-2.120.921 [2.112.621] 75 kB
68 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.120.921 [2.112.621] 0 kB
69 [ebuild U ] perl-core/Module-Build-0.400.300 [0.380.0] USE="{-test%}" 301 kB
70 [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.400.300 [0.380.0-r2] 0 kB
71 [ebuild U ] app-arch/libarchive-3.0.4-r1 [3.0.3] USE="bzip2 zlib -acl -e2fsprogs -expat -iconv -lzma -nettle -static-libs -xattr" 3,548 kB
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75 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
76 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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