On Friday 02 June 2006 18:33, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:29:10 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:48:21 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > >> > You'll need to add --update --deep to catch packages affected by the > >> > changed USE flags. > >> > >> no you have not: > >> > >> emerge -a --newuse world > >> > >> >>> --newuse implies --update... adding --update to options. > >> > >> and I can't remember that this was different in the past. > > > > Yes it was. Adding --update pulled in extra packages, even though they > > were the same version as installed. This was somewhat counter-intuitive, > > so the new behaviour makes more sense. You should still need --deep > > though. > > Which version of emerge/portage is being discussed? I am running > portage-2.0.54-r2. The man page for emerge suggests (but does not > state) that --update is still needed. > > --update (-u) > > Updates packages to the best version available, which may not > always be the highest version number due to masking for > testing and development. This will also update direct > dependencies which may not be what you want. In general, use > this option only in combination with the world or system > target. > > I also don't see an explicit mention that --newuse implies --update
it is not in the manpage, but emerge tells it: emerge -pN world >>> --newuse implies --update... adding --update to options. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies . . . -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
