On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:11:34 +0530, Suman Chakrabarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 No outdated packages were found on your system.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!
This has not worked not because of the -1, but because you remove --newuse ! --newuse will emerge the package only if its use flags has changed, and it wasn't the case :) > > Regards, > Suman Chakrabarty. > > > -- Xavier Parizet
