emerge update system

zerogeny · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2002 Posts: 85

should only update packages that have been installed and not the whole system catergory (for those of us that have removed unneed 'base' packages).

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leifbrown · n00b Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

Uh... how do you know the packages weren't needed?

Multiple packages can control the same files. You remove one, the other may stop working. (This is how I hosed my first Gentoo install. :oops:

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Actually, this behavior is similar to one I requested:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1479&sid=8febe9b2b291190490cb740c27be3dd8

I expect the developers response and reasoning are the same.