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On Tuesday 02 September 2008 10:12:33 Dale wrote: |
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> > Which is what the output was telling you all along. Previously you didn't |
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> > need the "--", but that leads to all manner of horrible screw-ups |
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> Aaaaa, I gotcha. Keep in mind I'm not a programmer here. Not real sure |
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> what the -- means either but as long as it works. Wooooo Oooooooo !! |
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It's just a convention. revdep-rebuild launches some other process (emerge) so |
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when it does that it takes everything it finds on it's own command line after |
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the " -- " and passes it on to emerge literally. |
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it's quite a common trick, startx/xinit also do the same thing, for the same |
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reason. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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