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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Things one could be upset about
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:32:44
Message-Id: 20150119183231.6f6faa0d@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Things one could be upset about by Sergey Popov
1 On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:42:45 +0300
2 Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@g.o> wrote:
3 > 17.01.2015 18:51, Ciaran McCreesh пишет:
4 > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:49:24 +0400
5 > > Сергей <protserovsd@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > >> Any random user can tell you: -u means UPDATE, -D means DEEP
7 > >> (follow dependencies).
8 > >
9 > > And what do those actually mean?
10 >
11 > Do you need citation from 'man portage'? :-)
12
13 Well no, because that doesn't answer the question...
14
15 > -D usually adds to deptree more deps, than usual 'world'(if we are
16 > still talking about 'emerge -uDN world') like deps of deps, etc,
17 > until full tree will be built.
18 >
19 > Maybe i am not totally correct
20
21 You're not totally correct.
22
23 > And 'man portage' is telling me pretty much the same things
24
25 Right, which brings us back to the original point: very few people
26 actually understand what those options *really* do, so claiming that
27 Portage has an intuitive or obvious commandline is rather questionable.
28
29 --
30 Ciaran McCreesh

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