Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: I have :-) I've also removed (forcibly) all versions of gcc, portage, and glibc individually and all together. quickpkg is a nice thing to know about :-) I got that covered. I found this little tid bit of info. OP may want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > I think you need to fix your world before before doing any > > --depclean steps. > > Seems like :) Probably not now that we have the full picture though -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mai

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: > >> That will tell you packages that are installed and !may! not be > >> needed by other packages. Note all the warnings here? I have not > >> had anything serious removed by using this in ages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: That will tell you packages that are installed and !may! not be needed by other packages. Note all the warnings here? I have not had anything serious removed by using this in ages but strange things can happen. You need to be carefu

[gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:39:11 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> >> > emerge --depclean >> >> >> >> thanks. 200 some packages, which would be removed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Dale
Michael Schmarck wrote: Thanks. I think I removed kde-meta, because it installs too much stuff, that I don't need (like kppp). It would be nice, if the kde-meta ebuild would be more like the gst-plugins-meta package, in that it sould allow the user to specify what he wants to get installed and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: > That will tell you packages that are installed and !may! not be > needed by other packages.  Note all the warnings here?  I have not > had anything serious removed by using this in ages but strange things > can happen. You need to be careful with this.  Remov

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The other option is to use the kde*meta ebuilds, which do directly > > depend on the sub-ordinate packages. This is what I do and I don't > > get the effect you observed. > > Thanks. > > I think I remov

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:30:11 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > I think I removed kde-meta, because it installs too much stuff, > that I don't need (like kppp). It would be nice, if the kde-meta > ebuild would be more like the gst-plugins-meta package, in that > it sould allow the user to specify wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Dale
Michael Schmarck wrote: <> Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed, because the dependent package got removed (as an example, I'd like to find kde-i18n, because that used to be a dependency of kde-meta and kd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that > got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed, > because the dependent package got removed (as an example, I'd > like to find kde-i18n, because that used to be a dep

[gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other option is to use the kde*meta ebuilds, which do directly > depend on the sub-ordinate packages. This is what I do and I don't get > the effect you observed. Thanks. I think I removed kde-meta, because it installs too much stuff, that I don't n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Michael Schmarck wrote: Connected question: How do I quickly find all the packages that got installed as a dependency, but which are no longer needed, because the dependent package got removed (as an example, I'd like to find kde-i18n, because that used to be a dependency of kde-meta and kde-m

[gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Anthony Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Hello. >> >> >> >> How do I make emerge update all the installed packages, if >> there's an update available? >> >> Thanks, >> Michael >> >> > > Hi, > > First question, was it installed directly, or as a dependency f

[gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Schmarck
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:51:29 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> In "prose": I have kde-i18n-3.5.8 installed. In tree, there's >> an update available (kde-i18n-3.5.9). >> >> Why was that updatedable package not picked up, when I ran >> emerge -DuvatN wo