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From: Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:30:21
Message-Id: 44D79301.1030606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Masking practics by Enrico Weigelt
1 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > Why can't emerge just print out an fat warning if its going to
3 > downgrade ? Would save people from much, much trouble.
4 >
5 # emerge -pv =coreutils-5.2.1-r7
6
7 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
8
9 Calculating dependencies... done!
10 [ebuild UD] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 [5.94-r1] USE="-acl -build
11 -nls -static" 0 kB
12
13 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
14
15 See the little "D"?
16
17 It's not big, it's not fat, but it's warning you. :)
18
19 Steve
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