[gentoo-user] why does emerge --update --deep world try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?

Hi In trying to update my system (server -- no X running) I looked in the docs and it said to % emerge --update --deep world This is trying to update a bunch of packages that I never had installed in the first place and is coming into errors since the kernel does not have things like sound

Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge --update --deep world try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?

If you don't want to bother compiling any sound on your system, then add -alsa -arts -esd to your use flags. It's more than likely one of your packages found in the update --deep had the alsa tagged on itself by default, which requires an override described above either in /etc/make.conf or just

Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge --update --deep world try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?

On May 18, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Wade Brown wrote: If you don't want to bother compiling any sound on your system, then add -alsa -arts -esd to your use flags. It's more than likely one of your packages found in the update --deep had the alsa tagged on itself by default, which requires an override