Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

[Wolfgang Illmeyer]

Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 23:15 schrieb Daevid Vincent:
> Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option,
> which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge
> -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It
> never acted like this before. It's only been within the past few weeks. On
> an older Gentoo server (which I don't upgrade nearly as often as my
> notebook above) it doesn't exhibit this behaviour.

This seems to be an unlucky change of the semantics of -D. If I remember 
correctly, -D usually meant "do not downgrade". This option however has long 
been deprecated because it was responsible for lots of troubles and was 
removed recently. man emerge now says:

--deep (-D)
       When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces  emerge
       to  consider  the entire dependency tree of packages, instead of
       checking only the immediate dependencies of the packages.  As an
       example, this catches updates in libraries that are not directly
       listed in the dependencies of a package.

/Wolfgang
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