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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:37:56
Message-Id: 20080830203748.2e7d7239@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python by Stroller
1 On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:10:27 +0100, Stroller wrote:
2
3 > It just seems more effective than `emerge -D
4 > world` - that seems to miss many packages.
5
6 The packages is misses are either build-time dependencies, so don't need
7 updating, or are not dependencies of anything in world and would be
8 removed by emerge --depclean.
9
10 I'm with Alan on this, use with-bdep and trust portage, it knows far more
11 about the inner workings of your package tree (which it created) than do
12 you.
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15 --
16 Neil Bothwick
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18 WITLAG: The delay between delivery and comprehension of a joke.

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