Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to force a particular version of a dependency
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:15:03
Message-Id: 0e505215-c20c-0ba1-31a9-d7d5e1c4e7e8@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to force a particular version of a dependency by Mark Knecht
1 On 2020-06-07 23:03, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 1:20 PM n952162 <n952162@×××.de
5 > <mailto:n952162@×××.de>> wrote:
6 > <SNIP>
7 > > I don't understand this - what can I add to @system to get @system
8 > to update?
9 > <SNIP>
10 >
11 > emerge -e @system
12
13        --emptytree, -e
14               Reinstalls target atoms and their entire deep dependency
15 tree, as though  no
16               packages  are  currently installed. You should run this
17 with --pretend first
18               to make sure the result is what you expect.
19
20 Oh, that's really the nuke option, isn't it.  Good to know about it.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] What's the best way to force a particular version of a dependency Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>