[gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:37:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> I wonder why emerge doesn't do something like this by default,
>> actually. Say a package has a serious exploit and an update was made.
>> If the package isn't in world, emerge will never grab the update.
>
> If it's not is world, or a dependency of a world package, it's not needed
> and --depclean will catch it.

No, it will not :P  Don't ask me why, because I don't know.  I only know 
from experience that --depclean does not catch some packages that get 
updated with "emerge -1u `qlist -IC`" (and don't get updated with 
"emerge -uD world system").