On Thursday 25 September 2008 12:12:23 Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > Gentoo's world only contains packages you have installed manually (emerge > package). and without -1 option. Would does not contains packages that have > been installed as dependencies to other packages. > You could view /var/lib/portage/world to see what it contains. > > If you really need vigra, it is a good idea to add it to world file: emerge > --noreplace vigra > Howewer, I don't recommend add any dependencies which you are no using > directly to world. It would make --depclean useless.
I think he understands that by now. His question is more like: If eix tells me that an update to vigra is available, then why does emerge -uD world not pick it up? sorcerer, what is your arch, and what is the outputs from 'eix -e vigra' and 'emerge -pv media-libs/vigra' -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
