Did an update today. After the update, I checked again... [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --update --changed-use world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB Good... nothing to add... I think. But replace "--update" with "--emptytree", and a whole bunch of new and updated stuff shows up. Is there a logical explanation? Should I emerge world? Or just the new and updated stuff (with the -1 flag)? Here are listings of the new and updated stuff... [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --changed-use --emptytree world | grep ' N ' [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.210.0-r2 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Package-Constants-0.20.0-r2 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.100.0-r2 0 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.60.0 133 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.60.0 231 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/Params-Check-0.360.0 12 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/Module-CoreList-2.800.0 57 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/Module-Load-0.240.0 6 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Params-Check-0.360.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.60.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.60.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Module-CoreList-2.800.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Module-Load-0.240.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/IO-Compress-2.60.0 238 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.60.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/Archive-Tar-1.900.0 57 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/Module-Load-Conditional-0.540.0 13 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Module-Load-Conditional-0.540.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.780.0 27 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.780.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] perl-core/CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.122.0 21 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.122.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-lang/vala-0.18.1:0.18 USE="{-test} -vapigen" 0 kB [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --changed-use --emptytree world | grep ' U ' [ebuild U ] app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0.0.5g [9.0.0.4g] 6 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/gnome-common-3.6.0:3 [3.1.0:3] 141 kB [ebuild U ] dev-lang/nasm-2.10.07 [2.10.05] USE="-doc" 665 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/version-0.990.100 [0.940.0] 105 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/Test-Harness-3.260.0 [3.230.0] 288 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.270.0 [1.230.0] 68 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.8.0 [0.4.0] 31 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-Manifest-1.610.0 [1.580.0] 29 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-Install-1.540.0 [1.54] 0 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-version-0.990.100 [0.940.0] 0 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.270.0 [1.230.0-r2] 0 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.8.0 [0.4.0] 0 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.260.0 [3.230.0-r3] 0 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest-1.610.0 [1.580.0-r1] 0 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.540.0 [1.54] 0 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/Module-Metadata-1.0.11 [1.0.6] 27 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.440.400 [1.440.100] 8 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.440.400 [1.440.100-r2] 0 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Module-Metadata-1.0.11 [1.0.6] 0 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Archive-Tar-1.900.0 [1.54] 0 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.205 [0.27.03] 34 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.205 [0.27.03] 0 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.640.0 [6.620.0] 412 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.640.0 [6.620.0] 0 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/CPAN-Meta-2.120.921 [2.112.621] 75 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.120.921 [2.112.621] 0 kB [ebuild U ] perl-core/Module-Build-0.400.300 [0.380.0] USE="{-test%}" 301 kB [ebuild U ] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.400.300 [0.380.0-r2] 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-arch/libarchive-3.0.4-r1 [3.0.3] USE="bzip2 zlib -acl -e2fsprogs -expat -iconv -lzma -nettle -static-libs -xattr" 3,548 kB -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications