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

[Daevid Vincent]

...and that has what to do with "emerge -Davu"?

--newuse shortcut is -N

       --newuse (-N short option)
              Tells emerge to include installed packages where USE flags
have 
              changed since installation.

-D is deep.
-a is ask.
-v is verbose.
-u is 

       --update (-u short option)
              Updates packages to the best version available, which may not
              always be the highest version number due to masking for
testing
              and development. This will also update direct dependencies
which
              may not what you want. In general use this option only in
combi-
              nation with the world or system target. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Dnes [mailto:waltdnes@××××××××.org]
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 8:21 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it
> should these days?!
>
> 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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