Hello there. Strange things happen with emerge. An example:
root # emerge -upD world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12 [2.11z-r7] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.5 [2.14.90.0.2] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r2 [3.2.3-r1] [ebuild UD] app-office/openoffice-bin-1.0.3.1 [1.1_beta-r1]
There's nothing wrong here as far as I can tell.
root #
but, look at this: root # emerge -p depclean Why does it want to delete the gimp????
Depclean removes things that are not depended upon by any other packages I think. You are not supposed to run depclean manually. Only use it with -p as a guide to how to clean your system. To remove older versions of packages try emerge --prune -p or emerge --prune -p <package>.
Then, another thing:
root # emerge -pv foomatic
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.0 +cups -samba [ebuild N ] net-print/foomatic-db-engine-3.0.0 [ebuild N ] net-print/foomatic-db-20030716 +cups -ppds [ebuild U ] net-print/foomatic-3.0.0 [2.0.2]
Why doesn't it update foomatic with an "emerge -upD world"?
Run 'regenworld' and then do 'emerge -Duvp world'. Also, do 'emerge gentoolkit' and do 'emerge -uvp `qpkg -I -nc`' and you will see many more upgrades. I'm not sure why emerge does not pick up on these ones.
Anyone?
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