[gentoo-server] upgradeonly deprecated in portage

[Ben Munat]

Hello,

Does anyone know what the story is with the deprecation of the 
--upgradeonly option on emerge? The emerge man page says:

"This option is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. Please use the 
/etc/portage/package.* files from now on."

but it doesn't say what these package.* files are supposed to be. None 
of my gentoo systems have any package.* files in the /etc/portage directory.

Also the announcement page on the gentoo site talks about several other 
new features, but doesn't discuss this deprecation.

I am using a few packages that are masked and I don't want portage to 
revert to an earlier version. The --upgradeonly switch was nice and 
easy... don't know why the devs had to screw with that.

Ben