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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:01:55
Message-Id: AANLkTilX_Yt2scB55Yhq77uE4qfKDi38tkN_O_5Uw71Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but... by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:43 AM, <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> [10-06-28 19:16]:
3 >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM,  <meino.cramer@×××.de> wrote:
4 >> > Hi,
5 >> >
6 >> > is it possible to emerge all missing dependencies of a certain
7 >> > application without emerging the application itself? And: Will
8 >> > I hurt the system that way?
9 >> >
10 >> > Best regards,
11 >> > mcc
12 >>
13 >> ???
14 >>
15 >> emerge -DuN application
16 >>
17 >> ???
18 >>
19 >> What am I missing in the question?
20 >>
21 >> Test it on a clean app with no dependencies missing. It should emerge
22 >> nothing. Then emerge -C one dependency and try it again. It should
23 >> pick up that dependency but not emerge the app itself.
24 >>
25 >> You will not hurt your system doing that command.
26 >>
27 >> - Mark
28 >>
29 >
30 > Hi Mark,
31 >
32 > thanks a lot!
33 >
34 > You helped me!
35 > Best regards,
36 > mcc
37
38 :-)
39
40 Glad it was easy!
41
42 Cheers,
43 Mark