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On 6/10/09, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> P. S. Ain't it funny that everybody has a different way of doing the |
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> same thing? And a different tool for each one. |
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No, the suggested commands aren't all even doing the same thing. |
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Especially emerge -e world is an outlier. On a box with a "lazy" or a |
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"first time install, learning Gentoo" admin it's likely to give a very |
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different result from most of the others. |
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As the OP hasn't given a reason or motivation why he needs the package |
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list, what it is for, we can only make assumptions and throw out wild |
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guesses. |
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After all, he might even be after emerge -pv --depclean, as it, too, |
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sort of prints out pretty much all packages on the system. Not to |
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mention a few thousand lines of dependency information. :) |
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Arttu V. |