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Vlad
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 8:53 am    Post subject: New --onlyupdates argument for emerge Reply with quote

How about a "--onlyupdates" type argument for emerge? There are a number of programs I choose not to install (or I just plain uninstalled them) that are part of the "world/system" specification, so when I do "emerge --pretend --update system world" it spits out a few packages I don't want to install, along with the updated packages I DO want to install.

This is where the --onlyupdates argument could be of use: emerge --pretend --update world system --onlyupdates would spit out only packages that are updates. emerge --update --onlyupdates world system would install all packages that are updates (and only updates) to my system.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

you might as well get that done with just plain old --update
why bother with the extra command line option?
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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2002 7:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because --update includes things I DON'T want to install! For example, if I unmerge raidtools (part of the world/system package), then do
'emerge --update world', the system will install raidtools (because it's part of the world package) even though I dont want it on my computer. An --onlyupdates option would allow me to only update software which is already installed on the computer -- ie, only programs with a "U" before them will be show up if I did emerge --pretend --onlyupdates world.
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PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2002 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thats exactly what i mean!!!
do whatever you said in your first post but with the update option :)

the current one sux!
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PostPosted: Fri May 10, 2002 11:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can manually remove the apps you don't want anymore from /var/cache/edb/world.
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