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From: Tony Clark <tclark@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -u program
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 08:42:21
Message-Id: 200305011042.24128.tclark@telia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -u program by mike wakerly
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4 On Thursday 01 May 2003 10.32, mike wakerly wrote:
5 > On Thursday 01 May 2003 07:51 am, Tony Clark wrote:
6 > > My glibc and gcc aren't in stable release yet but when I went to upgrade
7 > > a program it wanted to downgrade these. I can understand this behaviour
8 > > when using emerge -u world but it doesn't make sence IMHO for a specific
9 > > program. Not sure I can call it a bug, but it seems strange behaviour.
10 >
11 > You might want to use -U; it's the upgrade-only flag.
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13 I know how to solve the problem, but it isn't my point. My question is should
14 emerge -u someprogram be allowed to down grade other programs in the process
15 unless DEPEND < current_installed_versions are actually specificed in the
16 ebuild. No problem with world behaviour, there I believe it does the correct
17 thing.
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19 tony
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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -u program Daniel Armyr <daniel.armyr@××××.se>