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Am Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2009 12:19:44 schrieb William Kenworthy: |
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> Hi Neil - could you explain why? |
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Because only packages which are not a dependency for any other package should |
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be in world. If you install that many packages in one go emerge will put all |
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of them into world, regardless of their dependencies with each other. |
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> - from man emerge: |
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> --oneshot (-1) |
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> Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world |
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> file for later updating. |
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> This would imply that if you use oneshot, the system wont know about the |
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> package and wont update it |
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Nope. It wont take them into account for _normal_ update. There's also --deep. |
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> - not what you would normally want with any |
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> package except under special circumstances. In fact, unless you have a |
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> package you dont want updated, EVERY package on the system SHOULD be |
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> in world? |
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Nope, see above. If you have packages you don't want updated, mask the higher |
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versions. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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