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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:27 pm    Post subject: not every package installed is in the world file Reply with quote

Ok so like I install my system and stuff right? Only not every package that gets installed makes it into my world file? And as a result they don't get updated with emerge --update world. Any idea why?
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My understanding is that only stuff you manually install with the emerge command is put into the world file. I like this system because really the only stuff that needs to be updated constantly are the apps you see as a user or administrator. Everything else is just the substructure for this functionality, and needn't be updated constantly; substructure gets updated only when the superstructure needs a dependency filled.

If you want to update "core" stuff, like the kernel, init scripts, etc., do "emerge system" in addition to "emerge world".

If you really want everything updated, check out this thread.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 11:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As Hypnos mentions, only packages that are emerged "explicitly" by you go into the world file. Packages that are installed only to fulfill dependencies of explicitly installed packages will not be recorded in the world package list. You can actually prevent recording an explicitly emerged package from being recorded into the world file using the "--oneshot" option.
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