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From: "Rafael Fernández López" <info@××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's exactly --deep for ?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:13:30
Message-Id: 44C0B8A7.9030302@maestroprogramador.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] what's exactly --deep for ? by Enrico Weigelt
1 From "man emerge":
2
3 --deep (-D)
4
5 When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces emerge to
6 consider the entire dependency tree of packages, instead of checking
7 only the immediate dependencies of the packages. As an example, this
8 catches updates in libraries that are not directly listed in the
9 dependencies of a package.
10
11 To sum up, portage will look for updates not only in your world file,
12 but on dependencies too.
13
14 Bye,
15 Rafael Fernández López.
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