Re: [gentoo-user] couple of newbie questions about emerge

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

OK, thanks guys this get me going -- I think I will emerge the toolkit
and see what that gives me.

on Sunday 01/07/2007 Daniel Iliev(danny@ilievnet.com) wrote
 > John covici wrote:
 > > 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.
 > >
 > >   
 > 
 > 1) "emerge -ep world" should list all currently installed packages
 > 2) yes, "emerge -uD world" keeps your system up-todate
 > 3) "emerge -ep system" gives you the base system packages. In the
 > example you gave "pciutils" is installed as a depandecy. Following this
 > case if yu decide to uninstall coldplug ( "emerge -C coldplug") then
 > "pciutils" would remain in your system as an orphaned package. Use
 > "emerge --depclean" to remove such packages.
 > 
 > I'm kindly recommending you to read *"man emerge"*, "man portage", "man
 > make.conf".
 > 
 > -- 
 > Best regards,
 > Daniel
 > 
 > 
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