Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> The current behaviour is the correct and expected one - you told
> portage to emerge something and it did. Why else would you emerge
> something if you didn't intend it to become a permanent feature of the
> system and part of world? This has always been the definition of
> emerge - to make it permanent. If you want to emerge something and NOT
> have portage put it in world then you must use the -1 option. Remember
> that emerging something is supposed to be a permanent action that you
> (as root) intended to happen. If what you intend is something more
> unusual like a mere test or "just to see what would happen" then you
> must take additional steps (to make it clear that you are doing
> something out of the ordinary). It's the same logic as rm uses: the
> user told the computer to delete a file so the computer did what it
> was told by it's master and deleted the file. What else would you
> expect it to do? p.s. before I forget: Happy New Year :-)

I didn't tell it to add it to the world file tho, I just told it to 
update it hence the option --update.  I update things all the time but 
it doesn't mean I want them added to the world file.  If I want to 
emerge something and have it added to the world file, I leave the -u 
option out of it, then it should be added because I requested it to be 
emerged not updated.

Example:

emerge phonon

That means I want it emerged on my system and should be added to the 
world file.

emerge -u phonon

That means I want to update/upgrade phonon.  I don't want it in my world 
file, just updated.  This is the way it worked before --oneshot came 
along.  It is not the way it is now but it was that way a good while back.

Happy New Year to you too.  Mine are getting better.  I lost my Dad on 
New Years Day many years ago.  It's not the same since.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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