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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newb question about emerge ...
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:07:53
Message-Id: 42B08A2A.4090208@asmallpond.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newb question about emerge ... by Andrew Muraco
1 Andrew Muraco wrote:
2
3 >first of all (some people will disagree with me on this)
4 >
5 >
6
7 I will ;->
8
9 ># emerge -avuDN world
10 >does a much more through job, because it not only checks the packages
11 >you have installed,
12 >
13
14 ...but only to correct this statement. It is more accurate to say that
15 it checks all packages and dependancies of packages in world. That is
16 frequently a subset of all installed packages. Most users won't
17 understand the distinction though...
18
19 Ian, consider this an invitation to come over to gentoo-user and ask us
20 any questions you have about using Gentoo.
21
22 -Richard
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