On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 15:01 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > --deep is almost never needed. Some people love it and tell everybody to use > it. Usually people who are version number freaks. But in 90% it is useless to > harmfull.
Could you be more specific, please? How is it harmful? What happens to your system when you use --deep? Why is it that despite --deep being recommended[1] and used (I assume) by the majority of Gentoo users, I haven't heard of any ill effects of using --deep? (You are the first and so far the only person to recommend against it.) I *always* use --deep when upgrading because then I am assured of getting *all* of the dependencies of packages I am emerging. I am not aware of *ever* having system problems due to using --deep. How do you prevent packages from being installed that are missing dependencies? Thanks. --- Vladimir [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 -- Vladimir G. Ivanovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
