On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Andreas Prieß <ap@metaphysis.net> wrote:

>
> I think, if you have a look at the emerge option
> --with-bdeps < y | n >
> you should be able to get really, really all possible updates with emerge
> and without further gimmicks.
>
>  If it returns "0 packages" to update, try also this
>> (it takes very long time to finish, requires app-portage/portage-utils)
>>
>> # for f in `qlist -IC`; do emerge -puDvNt $f | grep ebuild; done
>>
>
> There should not be any difference if you use the mentioned option to
> emerge.


Unless of course
1) a package is installed
2) that package has been upgraded
3) that package is absent from world
4) no packages exist in world which that package is a dependant of ( via
recursive propogation )

However, imo, such entries should  either be injected into world, or removed
:)


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