Question on emerge --world

TheWhiteKnight · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:46 am Post subject: Question on emerge --world

Ok. Here is the scenario. I have a gentoo box fully configured.and working... well pretty good. I have a few issues with start up like I think my ALSA is doing some funky stuff, but it works. Currently I am trying to fix this problem, and a few other minor problems. I don't even have any DVD burning utilities emerged yet, I want to get everything running smoothly first.

I just emerged --sync and updated all of my packages. I guess I have a TON of stuff that needs updated, however, most of the x11 packages are blocked. How can I update my system without screwing kde or anything else up? Do I have to physically unmerge x11 to update world? Forgive me for being so well stupid on this, but sometimes the documentation and search features on here are a little difficult. There should be options with emerge --world like -uDve, I don't know.

How are you supposed to update your system when packages are blocking them and is it actually WORTH taking the chance of screwing something up? Updating to the new version of x11 means having to recompile the entire thing again right? Will that effect my current installation of KDE or flux? Will they need recompiled as well? Any info / advice is as always greatly apprecaited. I won't emerge --world now, not at least until I get everything smoothed out on my PC with the ALSA sound.

Thanks in advance.

- Josh
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Frodg · l33t Joined: 11 Feb 2004 Posts: 761

I believe this is because modular xorg is now in portage - there are many posts on how to upgrade....
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repolho · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 26

Rustylinux · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 154

Silly question here but what does emerge -world do agian ?

opentaka · l33t Joined: 18 Feb 2005 Posts: 840 Location: Japan

it emerges the world.

if you want to update you should do something like emerge -uDN world or so.
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nixnut · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Duplicate Threads.
See here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-446362.html
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