[gentoo-user] Re: --oneshot and --update

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 05/16/2011 09:35 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> I am trying to get the 'Zen' of emerge. Please CMIIW on the following points:
>
> * emerge --oneshot package will install package but does not record it in @world
>
> * To update a oneshot-ed package, I must either do it explicitly
> (emerge --update package), or use --deep against world (emerge
> --update --deep @world)
>
> * --update-ing a package will not record it in @world
>
> * If I want that package to be included in @world, I have to re-emerge it
>
> So, did I get everything right?

I don't think that "--deep" will update stuff that isn't a direct or 
indirect dependency of packages that are in world.