i just wanted to recompile epiphany since it was broken and i found out that a newer version than i have installed is available, but emerge never wanted to update: psycho@LiNuX ~ $ sudo emerge -vpuD --newuse world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-ftp/ncftp-3.1.9 [3.1.8-r1] 409 kB [ebuild R ] media-gfx/inkscape-0.43 -bonobo -debug* -doc -effects +gnome -inkjar +mmx +perl -plugin +python +spell 0 kB Total size of downloads: 409 kB psycho@LiNuX ~ $ sudo emerge -pv epiphany These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] www-client/epiphany-1.8.3 [1.6.4] +dbus* -debug -doc* +firefox +python 3,276 kB Total size of downloads: 3,276 kB emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d/ /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de_DE.UTF-8 de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aalib acpi alsa apm ares arts asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 canvas cdr crypt cups curl dba dbus dde dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl idn imagemagick imlib jabber java jpeg junit kde kdexdeltas lcms libg++ libwww lm_sensor mad mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png posix python qt quicktime readline recode samba sdl slang smp spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib linguas_de_DE.UTF-8 linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
world != all packages, contrary to what you might believe...
