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

[Daevid Vincent]

Yes. 'deep' is exactly what I expect -D to do. My incancation is the same as
it's been for years, its' that -D acts more like a -u now.

DÆVID  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wolfgang Illmeyer [mailto:wolfgang.illmeyer@×××.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:53 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it
> should these days?!
>
> Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 23:15 schrieb Daevid Vincent:
> > 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.
>
> This seems to be an unlucky change of the semantics of -D. If
> I remember
> correctly, -D usually meant "do not downgrade". This option
> however has long
> been deprecated because it was responsible for lots of
> troubles and was
> removed recently. man emerge now says:
>
> --deep (-D)
>        When used in conjunction with --update, this flag
> forces  emerge
>        to  consider  the entire dependency tree of packages,
> instead of
>        checking only the immediate dependencies of the
> packages.  As an
>        example, this catches updates in libraries that are
> not directly
>        listed in the dependencies of a package.
>
> /Wolfgang
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