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From: Chris White <chriswhite@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel?
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:34:59
Message-Id: 200604280727.43459.chriswhite@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] why does portage depend on the kernel? by Chris Bare
1 On Friday 28 April 2006 07:40 am, Chris Bare wrote:
2 > Any idea why it wants to install the new kernel too?
3 >
4 > oberon # emerge -puD portage
5
6 Translation: update and deep
7
8 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
9 >
10 > Calculating dependencies ...done!
11 > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.13-r2 [1.3.13-r1]
12 > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r3 [2.3.5-r3]
13 > [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3
14
15 Deep means that it does reverse dependency mojo and updates the depends as
16 well (in fact, you should actually be doing it that way).
17
18 > [ebuild U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.11-r1 [0.1.10]
19 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.54-r1 [2.0.54]
20
21 to get just this: `emerge -u portage` is all you need.
22
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24 > Chris Bare
25 > chris@××××××××.com
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