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From: SOrCErEr <omentie@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:56:33
Message-Id: 384d42da0809252056r7e5dac47l6c9898ce95a77768@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra by Alan McKinnon
1 2008/9/25 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
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3 > On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:12:23 Vladimir Rusinov wrote:
4 > > Gentoo's world only contains packages you have installed manually (emerge
5 > > package). and without -1 option. Would does not contains packages that
6 > have
7 > > been installed as dependencies to other packages.
8 > > You could view /var/lib/portage/world to see what it contains.
9 > >
10 > > If you really need vigra, it is a good idea to add it to world file:
11 > emerge
12 > > --noreplace vigra
13 > > Howewer, I don't recommend add any dependencies which you are no using
14 > > directly to world. It would make --depclean useless.
15 >
16 > I think he understands that by now. His question is more like:
17 >
18 > If eix tells me that an update to vigra is available, then why does emerge
19 > -uD
20 > world not pick it up?
21 >
22
23 Yeah
24 That's the point what I want to say.
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26 Fortunately, I can be understand it while I'm reading this thread.
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28 Package "vigra" does not need on my system. So world doesn't contain that.
29 And I need to do emerge --depclean to remove packages like "vigra".
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31 Keyworld was dependency. I could realize this If I did --depclean only one
32 time.
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34 It's a good answers in this thread although question was stupid.
35 THANKS.
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39 >
40 > sorcerer, what is your arch, and what is the outputs from 'eix -e vigra'
41 > and 'emerge -pv media-libs/vigra'
42 >
43 > --
44 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
45 >
46 >
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50 SOrCErEr