On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 03:21:14 -0500, John covici wrote:

> 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.  

equery, as already mentioned, or eix with the -i and -c options.
 
> 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?

Lets say A depends on B which in turn depends on C. emerge --update world
will update A and B, but not C unless A or B's updates REQUIRE a layer C.
Adding --deep will update C too (and D,E,F...)

> 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?

In your profile. the easiest way to list them is with "emerge -ep system".

Emerging coldplug added it to your world file (/var/lib/portage/world).
pciutils was installed as a dependency, so it is not listed in world (or
system). If you uninstall coldplug (and any other packages depending on
pciutils) emerge --depclean  will remove pciutils , always use the -p
option with depclean first.


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Neil Bothwick

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