On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:10:27 Stroller wrote: > First question: is 'emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names`' a useful > command for updating packages not in the world file? Or is this usage > of mine to be avoided? It just seems more effective than `emerge -D > world` - that seems to miss many packages.
The main reason these packages are behind at all is that they are usually build dependencies, not run dependencies. They will only be updated with emerge -uD when something that depends on them is rebuilt. To avoid this, use 'emerge --with-bdeps y' This has the side effect of knowing what to do with SLOTs In general I find that emerge is infinitely better at knowing how to get what I want than I am, so it's always best to let it do what it wants to do -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
