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

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

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.  
>   

equery list will do that I think.  emerge gentoolkit to get that
command, if you haven't already.
> 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?
>   

Yup, emerge -uvD world should do that.  Actually, that is how I update
mine too.  It has worked so far.  There is some debate about it though. 
Some leave out the -D part. 
> 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?
>   

I'll give a example.  If you emerge Seamonkey.  It will pull in a few to
a lot of dependencies.  Only Seamonkey will be listed in world though. 
The name of the package you actually put in the emerge command is listed
in the world file, not all the dependencies.  The -D in the update
should take care of those though as far as keeping them updated.
> OK, that's it for now -- thanks much in advance for your help.
>
>   

You welcome.  I hope I helped. 

Dale

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