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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between --update and --emptytree?
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:04:37
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41ZNuBLF_vouOF=Y+ydZ1wAtv+hzyLE_GTKtFWHBYBhnw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Difference between --update and --emptytree? by Walter Dnes
1 On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Did an update today. After the update, I checked again...
3 >
4 > [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --update --changed-use world
5 >
6 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
7 >
8 > Calculating dependencies... done!
9 >
10 > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB
11 >
12 > Good... nothing to add... I think. But replace "--update" with
13 > "--emptytree", and a whole bunch of new and updated stuff shows up. Is
14 > there a logical explanation? Should I emerge world? Or just the new
15 > and updated stuff (with the -1 flag)? Here are listings of the new and
16 > updated stuff...
17
18 The extra stuff is probably build-time deps, which do not get updated
19 by default. Try this:
20
21 emerge -pv --update --changed-use --with-bdeps=y world

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