John covici wrote: > Hi. I am new to gentoo -- I have used Debian and rpm type > distributions, but I have a fewquestions about emerge. > > 1) Any way to get a package list as one line per package like > debian's dpkg -l or rpm's rpm -qa ? The --info gives info about > the system, but does not seem to give a list of packages. > > 2) How do I ensure that all dependencies of a package are updated -- > does --update --deep do this and would --update --deep world or > system do this? > > 3) Where are the packages listed for system? For instance I > installed coldplug and it installed pciutils, but that package is > not listed in world -- should it be? Or is it a system package? > > OK, that's it for now -- thanks much in advance for your help. > >
1) "emerge -ep world" should list all currently installed packages 2) yes, "emerge -uD world" keeps your system up-todate 3) "emerge -ep system" gives you the base system packages. In the example you gave "pciutils" is installed as a depandecy. Following this case if yu decide to uninstall coldplug ( "emerge -C coldplug") then "pciutils" would remain in your system as an orphaned package. Use "emerge --depclean" to remove such packages. I'm kindly recommending you to read *"man emerge"*, "man portage", "man make.conf". -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
