Re: emerge command

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On 20 Aug 2002 08:10:53 -0700
Vito Sansevero <[email protected]> wrote:

> typed emerge gnome 
<SNIP> 
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> 
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> On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 08:07, mike wrote:
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>     if you type 'emerge gnome' it will rebuild the gnome package
>     if you want to rebuild one of the sub gnome packages, but arent
>     sure which one, try `emerge -ep gnome` to list some possible
>     choices-mike


Here, see the above text.
-IF- you type "emerge gnome" it will rebuild the -GNOME- package.

the gnome package is an empty list of dependencies for the rest of
gnome, + a note about how to configure the windowmanager.


to solve this :
emerge -e -p gnome

and pick the packages you want from that list, run :
emerge <package> on those

and they will rebuild themselves.


gnome, as is KDE, is a metapackage. That is a list of dependencies that
are there to aid you in installing gnome, so you do not forget to add
parts of the gnome distribution.



Regards, 
  Spider
  irate developer



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