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On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:10:27 Stroller wrote: |
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> First question: is 'emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names`' a useful |
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> command for updating packages not in the world file? Or is this usage |
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> of mine to be avoided? It just seems more effective than `emerge -D |
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> world` - that seems to miss many packages. |
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The main reason these packages are behind at all is that they are usually |
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build dependencies, not run dependencies. They will only be updated with |
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emerge -uD when something that depends on them is rebuilt. |
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To avoid this, use 'emerge --with-bdeps y' |
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This has the side effect of knowing what to do with SLOTs |
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In general I find that emerge is infinitely better at knowing how to get what |
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I want than I am, so it's always best to let it do what it wants to do |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |