RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-10-02 Thread Daevid Vincent
Anyway, the portage-2.1.2 tracker bug [1] shows you the differences between portage-2.1.1 and the latest 2.1.2 prerelease. Also a comment from zmedico (the portage dev who is providing us with all of these new features and fixes) [2] clearly shows that the change is intended. Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 12:20:52 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm no expert by any stretch, I just noticed that it was acting different and as illustrated, I could prove it. Perhaps I misunderstood what --deep was for. I guess I thought it was the package and any dependencies that NEEDED upgrade

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-10-01 Thread Daevid Vincent
...and that has what to do with emerge -Davu? --newuse shortcut is -N --newuse (-N short option) Tells emerge to include installed packages where USE flags have changed since installation. -D is deep. -a is ask. -v is verbose. -u is --update (-u

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-10-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Reordering for readability. Please don't toppost... On Monday 02 October 2006 05:14, Daevid Vincent wrote: From: Walter Dnes: [SNIP] WARN: postinst In portage-2.1.1, emerge --newuse is now sensitive to changes in IUSE. [SNIP] ...and that has what to do with emerge -Davu? [SNIP] Obviously

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:15:04PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-29 Thread Graham Murray
Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I belive you're seeing is that there have been new flags added or removed from ebuilds and therefor there is need to rebuild a lot of packages to make everything fall in line. For myself recently I saw a lot of perl packages rebuilt because the 'minimal'

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 28 September 2006 23:15, Daevid Vincent wrote: Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never acted

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Illmeyer
Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 23:15 schrieb Daevid Vincent: Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 17:53, Wolfgang Illmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!': If I remember correctly, -D usually meant do not downgrade. That was -U (--upgrade-only), which is no longer documented. -- If

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
Yes. 'deep' is exactly what I expect -D to do. My incancation is the same as it's been for years, its' that -D acts more like a -u now. DÆVID -Original Message- From: Wolfgang Illmeyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:53 PM To:

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- Portage is developing quite fast at the moment so it is quite possible that you have discovered some change in behaviour (either due to a bug or due to permanent changes) but I don't see anything wrong in this mail... What makes you think it pulls in more

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 29 September 2006 01:32, Daevid Vincent wrote: Portage is developing quite fast at the moment so it is quite possible that you have discovered some change in behaviour (either due to a bug or due to permanent changes) but I don't see anything wrong in this mail... What makes you

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/28/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I do emerge -Dav sys-apps/baselayout It pulls in baselayout, python, perl, openssl (clearly the last two are not needed or related to baselayout) Not true at all. With the right USE flags, baselayout depends on coreutils, which

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Alan
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:15:04PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Something has changed recently with 'emerge'. Whenever I use the -D option, which I am pretty much in the habbit of typing 'emerge -Dav' or 'emerge -Davu world/system', I notice it pulling in more stuff than it should. It never

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!

2006-09-28 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 29 September 2006 01:04, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 28 September 2006 17:53, Wolfgang Illmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!': If I remember correctly, -D usually meant do not downgrade.