Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:18:33
Message-Id: 20060720221026.516afed6@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean' by "Vladimir G. Ivanovic"
1 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:08:21 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
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3 > Does 'emerge --update --deep' look for updates to packages like, using
4 > your example, pysol-sound-server, i.e. packages not in my world file?
5
6 emerge --update would catch this particular example. It updates the
7 packages listed plus any dependencies in their ebuilds. Adding --deep
8 makes emerge also consider the dependencies of those dependencies and so
9 on right down the tree.
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13 Neil Bothwick
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15 Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.

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