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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:53:57
Message-Id: 20160417215343.09829fcd@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask by Philip Webb
1 On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:40:04 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
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3 > Also, I've always used '-v' rather than '-a', as it's simpler.
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5 It's not simpler, it's different. -v clutters up the output with extra
6 information you may or may not need. -a saves running the dependency
7 calculations twice which is the case if you use -p and them emerge
8 without.
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10 You can use -a with -v just as you can use -p without -v.
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14 Neil Bothwick
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16 IBM: Itty Bitty Mentality

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