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From: Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage getting slicker?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:11:29
Message-Id: 1.468.502.033-ner-3.963@TP_L520
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage getting slicker? by Gevisz
1 On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:43:54 +0300, Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:52:41 +0200 Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:
3 >
4 > > On Thursday 14 July 2016 08:17:19 Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > > > -N is newuse, portage also considers packages whose USE has changed.
6 > > > -t is emptytree, portage also considers the entire tree and -u tells it
7 > > > to not remerge things that don't need updating.
8 > >
9 > > Um, -e is --emptytree, no? -t is just --tree. But yeah, according to his
10 > > first email, James did leave out -N the second time around ("emerge -uvDNp
11 > > world" vs. "emerge -uDtv @world").
12 >
13 > Sorry for the interrupting a big gurus, but in my humble opinion
14 > the reason why there was no compilation while running emerge for
15 > the first time is the -p option (pretend).
16
17 No, even without -p the first command wouldn't have done anything, because "Total: 0 packages".
18 There simple was nothing to do! The second command showed "3 Packages".
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