[gobolinux-users] freshen, and optional updates?

[Michael Homer]

On 11/7/07, kenneth marken <k-marken at online.no> wrote:
> when one use freshen to update a single package, does it also update the
> dependencies, even if its not strictly needed?
>
> i issued this command:
>
> Freshen -U MPlayer-Codecs-All
>
> and it started pulling in all kinds of packages (the dependendecies file for
> it was a big longer then i expected). hell, it even pulled in xorg 7.3!
I don't see why you'd use Freshen for a single program. But, yes, it
will pull in the full dependency tree. Use --shallow/-s to avoid that
behaviour. Or run `Freshen <list>` first to see what you're going to
get; you can use -X to nix items from there if you just want to skip
an X upgrade or something. See --help for more.
-Michael