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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:40:39
Message-Id: 200609282334.56880.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?! by Daevid Vincent
1 On Thursday 28 September 2006 23:15, Daevid Vincent wrote:
2 > Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option,
3 > which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge
4 > -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It
5 > never acted like this before. It's only been within the past few weeks. On
6 > an older Gentoo server (which I don't upgrade nearly as often as my
7 > notebook above) it doesn't exhibit this behaviour.
8 >
9 > The difference in portage is: 2.1.2_pre1-r3 and 2.1-r2
10 [SNIP]
11
12 Portage is developing quite fast at the moment so it is quite possible that
13 you have discovered some change in behaviour (either due to a bug or due to
14 permanent changes) but I don't see anything wrong in this mail... What makes
15 you think it pulls in more stuff than it should? BTW you should upgrade to
16 2.1.2_pre1-r4 (or downgrade to latest stable). If I am missing something
17 specific feel free to elaborate.
18
19 --
20 Bo Andresen

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RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?! Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com>