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 1JjBsh-0001wm-G3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:20:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 619ACE06E9; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1F9E06E9 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B392365C25 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:20:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.416 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.416 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.183, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Qs9+AOyJqpVz for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDE6669FC for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JjBsP-00084m-Se for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:20:33 +0000 Received: from zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch ([212.55.215.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:20:33 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:20:33 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:20:21 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?xYI=?= Message-ID: <5573059.kmkQssb8iy@schmarck.cn> References: <2577300.OLZLf1hHOn@schmarck.cn> <20080408114436.4b5285b2@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <1971498.rAt26meG94@schmarck.cn> <200804081312.52849.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 5f0b9882-dc06-479f-87ec-69a434c9e6be X-Archives-Hash: 6bd5cd0c6a1bed9a936f3d3f7016f2a4 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: >> Well, I disagree. I want to install almost all of the KDE stuff, >> but eg. not the PPP things, as I've got not use for that on that >> system. But I still would like my world file *NOT* to be cluttered >> with a gazillion of kde packages. >> >> The current system absolutely does not handle that just fine. > > Hmmm, well that's mostly just too bad. Yes, it is, isn't it? > The devs built the ebuilds to work the way the work because that's the > sanest approach when your universe is all the users that there are. Maybe not. > But the portage tree builds are never going to do what you are asking. Which majorly sucks, as there are good reasons why the packages should NOT be the way they are right now. Michael -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list