FAQ: Operation

• Paludis does not update DEPENDs of already installed packages
• Updating world misses things
• Get package information for a bug report

Paludis does not update DEPENDs of already installed packages

Paludis ignores build time dependencies (DEPENDs) of already installed packages by default. If you need a different behaviour, use the --dl-installed-deps-pre option. You may also want to use the everything set rather than world.

Updating world misses things

Paludis doesn't 'miss' packages. If you think it is missing something, check the following:

• See the previous item. Is the thing in question only included as a build dependency of a package?
• Are you sure the package is in world? paludis --query world will tell you.
• Is the upgrade being blocked by another package that depends upon a lower version of the thing being missed?

Get package information for a bug report

Use paludis --info to get general configuration information. Paludis will not show any configuration that is 'per-package' in this output. (This is different to emerge, which misleadingly shows an arbitrary global configuration no matter what.)

If you are submitting a bug report for a particular package, use paludis --info spec instead. If it's an installed package, spec can usually just be the qualified package name (for example, paludis --info sys-apps/paludis). If you're installing a package, you should instead specify an exact package ID (such as paludis --info =sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha12::paludis-overlay).