On Fri, Jul 25 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 23/07/2014 15:24, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> My normal updating procedure is >> >> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5" >> emerge --update --changed-use --keep-going @world >> >> I had mistakenly thought this would update all packages not at the >> latest version (subject to package.accept_keywords, package.mask, ...). >> >> I now realize that it only does this for the packages in world and then >> follows the dependency tree. So if package A in world is up to date, A >> depends of B, and a new version of B appears, B will not be updated. >> >> As a result eix-test-obsolete finds that I have packages installed that >> are no longer in the database. >> >> I could do >> >> emerge --update the-2-dozen-such-packages > > emerge --depclean
I had done that and nothing turned up. allan
