It would only update packages where ebuilds have been updated (for a given KEYWORD) since the last sync. You snipped the original email where I said that "emerge world" would not work and indeed a -e is needed.
Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Wesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge so that it recompiles all installed packages ? It will upgrade any packages that have been emerge'd directly, ie not as a dependency, but will not give the result OP is after. -- Tom Wesley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list