Yes. 'deep' is exactly what I expect -D to do. My incancation is the same as it's been for years, its' that -D acts more like a -u now.
DÆVID > -----Original Message----- > From: Wolfgang Illmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:53 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it > should these days?! > > Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 23:15 schrieb Daevid Vincent: > > Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I > use the -D option, > > which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge > -Dav' or 'emerge > > -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than > it should. It > > never acted like this before. It's only been within the > past few weeks. On > > an older Gentoo server (which I don't upgrade nearly as often as my > > notebook above) it doesn't exhibit this behaviour. > > This seems to be an unlucky change of the semantics of -D. If > I remember > correctly, -D usually meant "do not downgrade". This option > however has long > been deprecated because it was responsible for lots of > troubles and was > removed recently. man emerge now says: > > --deep (-D) > When used in conjunction with --update, this flag > forces emerge > to consider the entire dependency tree of packages, > instead of > checking only the immediate dependencies of the > packages. As an > example, this catches updates in libraries that are > not directly > listed in the dependencies of a package. > > /Wolfgang > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
