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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between --update and --emptytree?
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:12:56
Message-Id: 20130331031244.GA4782@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between --update and --emptytree? by Mike Gilbert
1 On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:04:24PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote
2 > On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
3 > > Did an update today. After the update, I checked again...
4 > >
5 > > [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --update --changed-use world
6 > >
7 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
8 > >
9 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
10 > >
11 > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
12 > >
13 > > Good... nothing to add... I think. But replace "--update" with
14 > > "--emptytree", and a whole bunch of new and updated stuff shows up. Is
15 > > there a logical explanation? Should I emerge world? Or just the new
16 > > and updated stuff (with the -1 flag)? Here are listings of the new and
17 > > updated stuff...
18 >
19 > The extra stuff is probably build-time deps, which do not get updated
20 > by default. Try this:
21 >
22 > emerge -pv --update --changed-use --with-bdeps=y world
23
24 I see nothing at all to be emerged...
25
26 ====================================================================
27 [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --update --changed-use --with-bdeps=y world
28
29 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
30
31 Calculating dependencies... done!
32
33 Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
34 ====================================================================
35
36 I've written an "autodepclean" script that I run to guide me through
37 cleaning up orphaned dependancies. Think of it as a "sane depclean".
38 After each use, I run revdep-rebuild to ensure that nothing is broken.
39 Could this be at the root of my situation?
40
41 --
42 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
43 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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