Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help with emerge package recompile
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:04:19
Message-Id: 200702022155.24220.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
1 On Friday 02 February 2007 21:29:33 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
2 > Also, if you use the long option name you must use two dashes '--' and not
3 > one '-'.  You argument '-update' is equivalent to '-u -p -d -a -t -e',
4 > which includes (among other things) the -e (--emptytree) flag, forcing
5 > emerge to pretend you have no packages installed.
6
7 Haha. Nice catch!
8
9 -update == --update --pretend --debug --ask --tree --emptytree
10
11 All of those options are valid and with --debug and --emptytree that's going
12 to give a scary amount of output...
13
14 --
15 Bo Andresen