From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JjBTk-00081S-Jm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:55:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1E88E06B5; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926A5E06B5 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:55:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 13so2095022fge.14 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:55:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=KcUEpS90V9d3nA0cX5hBh7BWxo+kY8d5Lco6YSE0SIE=; b=GRaWbN94SqkpUP+KIAZS/BG0bRXEvCEY3NlGRR2F61K3cVtkxy1MeuH5E2jxzbU0vnkxkfpTjrQ1djJyQ7p8Mri6Tachz743VlbD0GUPzGC8kK5qhcZKj6hsl/Vo5ujaU7gQvkp6gY4mK2Uw/SrOMsS1UKRLcMs2xXUGKG9F6go= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=e0k3I+vLZWIYalSNvrc4L86jShzKaWzmixDu28BRuFdCfGoHn30LKJhdjFSBfxT1ZOPxw6Scos7Ryhw7QVI9PVQ8u4gheHtHlzrrKi511Gk0pdd+jagKrOzdP9uRlT1USKhZrDMAzFXjPgzGEMBNNF1PHH27/YC1lZMn3yOLdU8= Received: by 10.82.187.2 with SMTP id k2mr9683935buf.26.1207652101490; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.200.116? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u26sm12653454mug.17.2008.04.08.03.54.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:55:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:52:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <2577300.OLZLf1hHOn@schmarck.cn> <4652642.MrjnKLfzT5@schmarck.cn> <47FB4AF6.3020300@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <47FB4AF6.3020300@bellsouth.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804081252.21594.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: fa2fcd0a-85be-4b42-bbe2-68dc5f681078 X-Archives-Hash: bc1516d4551e2ac0e4b2a7df35b30f00 On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: > That will tell you packages that are installed and !may! not be > needed by other packages. =A0Note all the warnings here? =A0I have not > had anything serious removed by using this in ages but strange things > can happen. You need to be careful with this. =A0Remove the wrong thing > and it can be a uphill battle to get it fixed. Like the fellow in the next desk this morning updating a machine that=20 hasn't been touched since 2005 (!) He noticed a blocker with python-updater after 'emerge world' and was=20 about to unmerge python and remerge the new one to get around the=20 blocker ... Lucky I saw it in time... =2D-=20 Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list