Hi everyone, the recent hint made around here by Neil Bothwick (thank you, Neil) about --changed-use, which I hadn't been aware of, made me re-read `man portage`. I came across --complete-graph, which is news to me too. The manpage makes it sound like it's something I want, but I fail to get its precise purpose. I tried googling for an answer, but ... well, it's probably still a fresh feature.
Could anyone please explain its function? I thought the -D in 'emerge -uDN world' was enough to ensure that all world packages and all their runtime deps (recursively) are considered and updated/remerged, if necessary. The manpage suggests that --complete-graph is different in that it doesn't actually pull in update/remerge of deep (i.e., deeper than immediate) deps of world packages. It just checks if any updates/remerges of world packages (plus their immediate deps) causes any conficts deeper in the depgraph. Is that all there is to the difference between --deep and --complete-graph? Thanks a lot for clarification. -rz
