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 1JjCgL-0006qW-5q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:12:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEE96E0422; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmailhost03.isp.att.net (fmailhost03.isp.att.net [204.127.217.103]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9790EE0422 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.78.70.226] (host-216-78-70-226.jan.bellsouth.net[216.78.70.226]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc03) with ESMTP id <20080408121107H0300i31o3e>; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:11:07 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [216.78.70.226] Message-ID: <47FB60DA.2040009@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:11:06 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080328 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages References: <2577300.OLZLf1hHOn@schmarck.cn> <4652642.MrjnKLfzT5@schmarck.cn> <47FB4AF6.3020300@bellsouth.net> <200804081252.21594.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200804081252.21594.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2ea726a4-16ed-4f81-9b42-caa3da4dc25a X-Archives-Hash: 6f19c12c79630d5a1649e3a422ca2fbd Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Dale wrote: > >> That will tell you packages that are installed and !may! not be >> needed by other packages. Note all the warnings here? I have not >> had anything serious removed by using this in ages but strange things >> can happen. You need to be careful with this. Remove 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 > hasn't been touched since 2005 (!) > > He noticed a blocker with python-updater after 'emerge world' and was > about to unmerge python and remerge the new one to get around the > blocker ... > > Lucky I saw it in time... > > New friend for life I suspect. That would be a doozy for sure. I haven't done that yet. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list