On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Patrick [ISO-8859-1] Börjesson wrote: > > This does not give the same results as the mentioned 'magic'... > > > > emerge -u `qpkg -nc -I` -p give me > [snip] > > > And emerge -uDp world gives me: > [snip] > > > Surely this is a bug? > > Actually, it not... Say you want to try out a package and when > installing it you install a whole bunch of dependencies with it. When > you later uninstall the package that you tried out it won't uninstall > all the dependencies that where drawn in as dependencies, which means > that they're still installed on your system. But since you didn't > explicitly installed them by 'emerge dep1; emerge dep2...' they're not > in the world-file either, and thus 'emerge -Du world' won't update those > packages if they're not depended on by some other package that you've > installed later on... > > Patrick Börjesson >
Ah yes, I see what you mean. Theory goes that the differences between the two packages should at least resemble to output from emerge depclean I guess. I will check when I get home.... Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
