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On Monday 24 March 2003 18:45, Louis-Philippe Brochu wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:08, Abhishek Amit wrote: |
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> > > IMHO Portage should have a way to upgrade all installed packages. |
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> > > No need for dependencies checking (--deep) or world file, Just go |
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> > > through the list of all installed packages (that we can get with |
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> > > qpkg) and act as if there were part of the world file in the |
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> > > current implementation. In fact i think such an option should be |
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> > > the default one |
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> > > |
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> > > What do you think? Why would someone want to update only packages |
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> > > in the world file? What are the advantages/disadvantages of the |
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> > > previous method compared to the current --deep option? |
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> > Try doing emerge `qpkg -I -nc`. This should do what you are looking |
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> > for. |
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> What i mean is, why isn't this option the default option when |
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> upgrading all packages? I'm sure i'm not the only one that thought, |
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> at first, that emerge world was supposed to do that. |
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If some package needs a specific version of other package you wouldn't |
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want to update that other package. If you do emerge `qpkg -I -nc` you |
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can make some packages in state where they no longer work, because |
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their dependencies are not met anymore. |
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