[gobolinux-users] freshen, and optional updates?

[kenneth marken]

On Tuesday 06 November 2007 23:19:11 kenneth marken wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 November 2007 23:10:38 Michael Homer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> because im ever so slightly insane? nah, i just happened to do so...
>

err, now i recalled. doing it that way i dont have to parse the freshen output 
manually, seeing if its a recipe or package. i can just issue 
Freshen -U "some package" and it will grab first a package, or go for the 
recipe.

if not i have to read the list, find that i need to use Compile or 
InstallPackage, and then go from there...