Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Norberto Bensa <nbensa@(protected):
>  
>> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> > I never emerge everything I see in the list since most are
>> > dependencies themselves and I don't want to add them to my world file.
>> >
>>
>> emerge -1 what-ever-dep-you-dont-want-in-world
>>
>>  
> Of course, if I Want to figure out which 10 items shouldn't be in my
> world file. I'm doing that right now with an openmotif emerge. However
> I was saying that if I see a big list of items, do equery depends one
> of the items, see something like k3b or even gnome, then emerging
> gnome picks up the dependencies even easier than using -1. At least I
> feel that way, but that's just me.
>
> - Mark
>  
I usually do this too, unless the number of ports to upgrade is very
small. One tip that might save you time, add --tree to your emerge call
and you can tell at a glance when an ebuild with a lot of dependencies
is in your list.
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