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From: Janusz Bossy <janusz.bossy@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's exactly --deep for ?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:48:01
Message-Id: 4e90cdd40607210537i6fd63b63q344c59aed9b949ac@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what's exactly --deep for ? by Enrico Weigelt
1 On 7/21/06, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > ah, so let's say i've installed package A (in world) which
3 > required B. if I use --update w/o --deep, only A gets updated,
4 > but not B.
5 >
6 > What happens when a newer version of A requires some newer
7 > version of B than currently installed ? Is B updated automatically ?
8
9 If it's explicitly specified in the ebuild then B will get updated. It
10 won't be updated on any other condition.
11
12 In my opinion doing emerge --update world instead of emerge --update
13 --deep world will break your system fast.
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