On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:51:22 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Because of that I have to replace > emerge @preserved-rebuild > > by something which just updates all packages > depending on media-libs/jpeg . > Here, > equery -qC depends media-libs/jpeg > > or probably > > equery -qC depends --indirect media-libs/jpeg > > comes to my mind. > > But the output is not quite what I need. > I'd like to use parallel emerge (option -j4) > since there are a lots of packages to re-emerge. > I'd need a long line containing several items, e.g. > '=dev-python/pygraphviz-0.99.1'
equery is not reliable as it doesn't correctly account for USE flags. Parsing the output from emerge --depclean -pv media-libs/jpeg is safer. -- Neil Bothwick There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants; and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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