Re: [gentoo-user] Change profile

[Teresa and Dale]

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

>On Friday 02 June 2006 16:00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:44:46 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>--deep is an option, and I understand why you choose not to use it,
>>>>but on this occasion it is necessary to accomplish the OP's goal.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>and I really do not believe that ;)
>>>
>>>
>>Believe what you like, I am relating direct experiences here. Faith has
>>nothing to do with it.
>>
>>
>>
>>>If a package is 'hit' by the new flag, --newuse should cover it. With
>>>or without --deep-
>>>
>>>
>>When run with --update only, emerge considers only those packages listed
>>in world and their direct dependencies. Lower level dependencies won't be
>>looked at, so portage won;t pick up the changed USE flag.
>>
>>From the man page
>>
>>--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.
>>
>>
>
>UPDATES
>
>not NEWUSE
>
>also from man emerge:
>     --newuse (-N)
>              Tells emerge to include installed packages where USE flags  have
>              changed  since  compilation.   An asterisk marks when a USE flag
>              has changed since the package was compiled.
>
>
>and I have seen 'far away' dependencies, that got rebuild, without deep!
>
>

It seems me and Neil has seen times where it didn't.  I have used -D
several times and it has not caused me any problems. 

Dale
:-) :-)
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