On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:01:59AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 11/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have a ~amd64 system on which I am trying to emerge world.
> >
> >First, what are the proper options to pass to this command?
>
> Nobody here can actually answer that question, because it depends on
> what, exactly, you want to do. However, some common option
> cominations, and their effect, would be:
What I want is to remerge everything on the system, whether it is a
dependency or not, everything. I had thought a simple "emerge world"
would do that, but your answer and other examples I have seen here
before make me disbelieve that -- why would --deep or --update be
necessary? Is world not really everything? Maybe there should be a
new target, "universe". I simply want to remerge all the merged
software on this system, regardless of whether it ws asked for
directly or hauled in by some other package however indirectly.
When I do weekly updates, I use -ptuvDN.
Here is what --tree shows (snippets only!):
[nomerge ] gnome-extra/deskbar-applet-2.16.1 USE="eds -debug"
[nomerge ] dev-python/gnome-python-desktop-2.16.0 USE="X -debug"
[ebuild N ] media-video/totem-2.16.2-r1 USE="a52 dbus dvd flac gnome
hal lirc mad mpeg nsplugin ogg theora vorbis xine xv -debug -firefox -nvtv" 0
kB
[ebuild N ] www-client/seamonkey-1.0.6 USE="crypt gnome ipv6 java ldap
postgres xinerama xprint -debug -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose
-moznoirc -moznomail -moznopango -moznoroaming" 0 kB
That is the only seamonkey emerge. I added -nsplugin to totem in
package.use and it is happy now. I simply unmerged the others, it is
too much of an annoyance, but I do not feel like chasing down the
totem unmerge heritage, or I would end up with very little left. Been
there, done that. I may just get rid of gnome entirely, since I
hardly every try it, and it seems to have far more of these dependency
and USE flag problems than anything else.
It doesn't really explain why totem cares about seamonkey vs firefox
vs mozilla, or how anyone shoudl know that nsplugin actually means
seamonkey. This is the most frustrating part.
STBSAW
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