On Monday 07 March 2005 01:26 pm, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Monday 07 March 2005 18:45, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > My ? is, do I have to emerge <each individual app> or <kdemeta> in order > > to be able to emerge individual apps at a later time for updates etc... > > If I understand your question correctly: the kdemeta packages are simply > containers that have the various individual apps belonging to the category > as dependencies (look at the ebuilds and you'll see this). So, if you > install, for example, kdemultimedia-meta (which will bring in all the > kdemultimedia programs) and then an update for noatun comes out, emerge > will only rebuild noatun. > Think of it like any other dependency mechanism that is handled by portage: > if you install gnome, that will bring in the gtk libraries as well; if an > update is available for the gtk libraries, only those will be rebuilt.
Thats what I thought, just didn't think it worked that way. Must have been something tdue to the hard masked issue? Anyway, what about the meta kde-meta? same way? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.9-ck3 | Win4Lin 5-1-18c netraverse.com | ________________________________________| -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
