->-----Original Message----- ->From: John Nilsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ->Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:21 PM ->To: Peter Ruskin ->Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to update all packages -> -> ->On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 03:10, Peter Ruskin wrote: ->> On Thursday 06 Feb 2003 01:56, Ajay Sharma wrote: ->> > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Mark D'voo wrote: ->> > > Go here, it has a little script that will put every package you have ->> > > installed including deps into your world file making sure that ->> > > everything get's updated. ->> > > ->> > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=7487&highlight= ->> > ->> > I thought that putting all your files including deps in the world file ->> > was a bad idea?? ->> > ->> > Someone tell me if this is wrong: ->> > ->> > Let's say you install packageA and it pulls in the depB, ->depC, and depD ->> > packages as dependencies. So from my understanding packageA will be ->> > listed in the world file and the depB, depC and depD packages ->won't be. ->> > Running 'emerge -u world' will update the packages listed in the world ->> > file, packages like packageA will get updated while depB, depC, and ->> > depD will stay at their older version. To update those packages you ->> > need to run 'emerge -u --deep world'. And if you uninstall packageA, ->> > then it will remove depB, depC, and depD. ->> > ->> > So far so good?? ->> ->> Not quite: if you uninstall packageA it will *not* remove depB, ->depC, and ->> depD. -> ->A --depclean would however, Also --update will take a peak att depB ->while --deep will follow down to depC and depD. -> ->If you add the whole system to world a simple `emerge -u world` would ->have to examine every single package, and its first line of deps, for ->updates (I don't know it it optimizes away packages that has already ->been decided on), which would mean that glibc f.ex. would be examined ->about 400 times, could get rather slow I imagine... -> ->/John
I just tried this command, it says that --depclean is an invalid option. emerge unmerge -p --depclean kde and emerge -p --depclean kde kev -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
