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txo
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 Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 7:35 am Post subject: Is emerge's --deep option unneeded? |
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Why is --deep option there? I want to upgrade mozilla and if I type emerge -pvu mozilla it shows me 5 packages to upgrade. When I type emerge -pvu --deep moziila it shows me 8 packages to upgrade. Why it is done this way? I think that make upgrade whithout --deep option can lead to problems. So, is emerge -u without --deep useles? Or if there is a good reason to do it sometimes as non deep upgrade, why deep upgrade isn't default and why there in't rather something like --nodeep option?
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haceye
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:33 am Post subject: Re: Is emerge's --deep option unneeded? |
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Hi,
| txo wrote: | | Why is --deep option there? I want to upgrade mozilla and if I type emerge -pvu mozilla it shows me 5 packages to upgrade. When I type emerge -pvu --deep moziila it shows me 8 packages to upgrade. Why it is done this way? I think that make upgrade whithout --deep option can lead to problems. |
Updating something without --deep perhaps can lead to problems, but it should not, because this would be a bug in the ebuild.
| txo wrote: | | So, is emerge -u without --deep useles? Or if there is a good reason to do it sometimes as non deep upgrade, why deep upgrade isn't default and why there in't rather something like --nodeep option? |
emerge -u --deep will upgrade all dependencies (recursively). So for example for a simple perl script it would upgrade glibc, because the perl script depends on perl and perl is written in C.
So a 'deep' update isn't required, because the package would work without that additional updates, too.
David
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