[gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

Hi.  I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type
distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge.

1)  Any way to get a package list as one line per package like
    debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ?  The --info gives info about
    the system, but does not seem to give a list of packages.  

2)  How do I ensure that all dependencies of a package are updated --
    does --update --deep do this and would --update --deep world or
    system do this?

3)  Where are the packages listed for system?  For instance I
    installed coldplug and it installed pciutils, but that package is
    not listed in world -- should it be?  Or is it a system package?

OK, that's it for now -- thanks much in advance for your help.

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         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com
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