On Thursday 18 October 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: > You need emerge --update --deep --ask --newuse --verbose world to see > everything, although even this won't cover packages that are neither in > world nor required by world. Those are the packages shown for removal by > emerge --depclean --pretend.
Actually, the above example misses one last class of packages, those that are only build-dependencies. To get them you have to add --with-bdeps y, like so in short format: emerge --with-bdeps y -uDNav world Or, to conform with Neil's example, using the long form: emerge --with-bdeps y --update --deep --ask --newuse --verbose world -- /PA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list