Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 14:19:46 schrieb ext Suman Chakrabarty: > >> Now my question is: why? "man emerge" says that the -1 option is >> equivalent to "--oneshot" which is "Emerge as normal, but do not add the >> packages to the world file for later updating." But how does it help >> emerge something which was not emerging without -1?! May be I am missing >> something obvious, but please explain. >> > > emerge adds only those packages to the world file which you specify > explicitely on the command line. All other packages which are installed to > fulfill the dependencies are not added. When you do a normal update, only > those packages listed in world are considered. To update dependencies as > well, > you need to use -D. Therefor you should emerge kdelibs with -1 to avoid > having > it added to the world file. >
Thanks, but I don't think my confusion was addressed fully. Let me explain. The following command did not work as reported (and suggested) before: ~ # emerge -D --newuse kdelibs Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. But, "emerge -1v kdelibs" worked as suggested. I don't understand why it works with -1 option added, but not without. Even if I had included kdelibs in the world file, it should have been re-emerged through the previous command, right? I didn't see through the additional magic done by -1! Regards, Suman Chakrabarty. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
