Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:41:34 schrieb ext Suman Chakrabarty:
> 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 No outdated packages were found on your system.
Yes, because you wanted to _update_ the package, but it was up-to-date.
> But, "emerge -1v kdelibs" worked as suggested. I don't understand why it
> works with -1 option added, but not without.
This has nothing to do with -1 (or --oneshot). It's update vs. install. So
what you did was "emerge kdelibs" instead of "emerge -D --newuse kdelibs" with
a -1 added to prevent adding the package to world.
HTH...
Dirk
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