Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

[Bert Swart <bertswart@chello.nl>]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 12:09:25PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On  4 May, Bert Swart wrote:
> > On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> the following situation puzzles me a lot.
> >> 
> >> My 'standard' way of updating is
> >> emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree @system @world
> >> 
> >> but it didn't update anything.
> >> 
> >> Still, eix confirmed there were quite a lot of kde packages which have
> >> newer versions, and indeed,
> >> emerge -auv1 -j4 --keep-going  $(qlist -IC kde-base/)
> >> upgraded 24 packages.
> >> 
> >> Where does this discrepancy come from?
> > Do you  have --with-bdep set in /etc/make.conf?
> 
> No. Are you saying that
> emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree  --with-bdeps y @system @world
> would have updated my kde packages, as well?
Probably. Sometimes, not all packages are included as dependency
if they are not strictly required. If you do want them to be
upgraded, add --with-bdeps to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in
/etc/make.conf. Or, like you did, upgrade them manually...
See also http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/faq.xml
> 
> Thanks,
> Helmut.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Helmut Jarausch
> 
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> RWTH - Aachen University
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany
>