Hello all, I followed the gentoo instructions to properly update to the new version of GCC. I read from other posts that it isn't truly nessecary to re-emerge any packages for this particular upgrade, but i'm still fairly new to Gentoo so i figured i'd do it just for the practice.
so anyway, I ran emerge -eav system followed by emerge -eav world. Needless to say this produced several packages that needed to be rebuilt. 168 for system and 630 for world. My main question is what exactly does the -e option do in emerge? I looked in the man page it didn't seem quite clear to me, but maybe that's do to me still being partially noobish still. I noticed that running emerge -av world didn't pull in nearly as many packages. I'm just curious as i'd like a clearer understanding of how portage works. Thanks!! -- Andy
