emerge -up world doesn't show all possibilities?

yozik · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Oregon, USA

Why is it w run emerge -up world I don't not see all packages that can be upgraded? For example if I run emerge -up openoffice I get notified that there is a newer version to install, but yet I don't see it listed when I run the emerge -up world command.

-JeaN- · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 9:58 am Post subject:

Maybe it has something to do with accept_keywords="~x86" ?

yozik · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Oregon, USA

maybe

but isn't the openoffice 1.0.2 a stable release?
So shouldn't it show up?

So then should I ask , if using the ~x86 keyword shouldn't emerge -p world show all the unstable releases available?

rac · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 10:24 pm Post subject:

world only includes things you have explicitly emerged. If something came in as a dependency, it doesn't get recorded in your world file. You can add it to /var/cache/edb/world if you wish.
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yozik · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Oregon, USA

Well OpenOffice is something that I emerge by hand.
I found this to be true with a few other progs as well