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From: Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newb question about emerge ...
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:10:39
Message-Id: 42B08AA9.8050509@leetworks.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newb question about emerge ... by Chris Gianelloni
1 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2
3 >On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 12:34 -0700, ian douglas wrote:
4 >
5 >>I've been using Gentoo since one of the 2003 releases, and never
6 understood this
7 >>behavior and was wondering if someone could enlighten me:
8 >>
9 >>Currently on a 2005.0 install:
10 >>
11 >># emerge --sync;emerge -puvN world
12 >
13 >
14 >Ehh... what does "emerge -N" do? I see no mention of such a thing in
15 >"emerge --help".
16 >
17 >Also, try using --deep (-D) when doing checks against world.
18 >
19 Actually i believe -N is documented, but it might not be clear..
20 -N is a short option equal to --newuse .. its a good idea to do.
21
22 Regards, Andrew
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