On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:27:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
emerge world doesn't re-emerge everything, only those packages that need updating. You want "emerge --emptytree world", which will re-emerge all packages in world and all their dependencies, direct and indirect. The only packages it won't re-emerge are those listed by "emerge --depclean -p", which are probably redundant anyway. These are packages that were pulled in as a dependency of a package that has since been removed. If you particularly want to keep one of these packages, add it to world with "emerge -n packagename". -- Neil Bothwick Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
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