On Saturday 16 Aug 2003 20:23, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
> Matt Broughton wrote:
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> > I did this just to see what it reported on my system:
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> Well to continue on this note:-
>
> $ regenworld
>
> $ emerge -Duep world | grep ebuild | wc -l
>      405
>
> $ wc -l /var/cache/edb/world
>      327
>
> So this is accurately disproportionate.  Correct?
>
Wrong.

With `emerge -Duep world` you're saying to portage: "Pretend I have 
nothing installed.  Now get me everything that's in  
/var/cache/edb/world, plus all ebuilds that they depend on."

Peter
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