On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 19:20, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> >
> > My assumption is he *wants* to re-emerge everything, not just see what
> will
> > get re-emerged. He'll run "emerge -p world" and it will NOT do it. Then
> > what ?? Sure, using the -p option is never a bad idea, but it won't do
> what
> > he wants to do.
> >
> > Hall
> >
> 
> 
> # emerge world
> 
> will not work either .. as world is already happily installed, in every
> imaginable situation, this will still do nothing.  You need -e to emptytree
> the list and start over.  I think -D would help it determine dependencies
> better to do it in the most proper order.
> 
> Tom Veldhouse

It will upgrade any packages that have been emerge'd directly, ie not as
a dependency, but will not give the result OP is after.

-- 
Tom Wesley

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