Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:15:04PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote
> Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option,
> which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge
> -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It
> never acted like this before. It's only been within the past few weeks. On
> an older Gentoo server (which I don't upgrade nearly as often as my notebook
> above) it doesn't exhibit this behaviour.

  I've got ELOG enabled, so let's cd to that directory...
cd /var/log/portage/elog/

  Now let's see what messages we have from portage...
$ ls -1 | grep sys-apps:portage
sys-apps:portage-2.1.1:20060916-110813.log

  OK, file "sys-apps:portage-2.1.1:20060916-110813.log" looks
interesting; wonder what it says...

==========================================================================
$ cat sys-apps:portage-2.1.1:20060916-110813.log
LOG: postinst
See NEWS and RELEASE-NOTES for further changes.

For help with using portage please consult the Gentoo Handbook
at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3


WARN: postinst
In portage-2.1.1, emerge --newuse is now sensitive to changes in IUSE.
Immediately after upgrade from 2.1, users may notice a significantly larger
number of packages pulled in by --newuse, but that behavior is normal.
For additional information regarding this change, please see bugs #116955,
#144333, #144661, and #146060.
==========================================================================

  That pretty well sums it up.

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