On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:13:28 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> The script has a list of packages which should be updated
> completely automatically, but *only* if they're pulled in as 
> dependency (beginning from world), and others not in that list
> should *not* be updated.

Would piping emerge -pu world through sed/grep/awk and parsing the output 
do what you want?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing
as division.