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From: Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage getting slicker?
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:03:17
Message-Id: 2176613.TiKoWxX8sX@thetick
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage getting slicker? by Gevisz
1 On Thursday 14 July 2016 14:43:54 Gevisz wrote:
2 > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:52:41 +0200 Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> wrote:
3 > > On Thursday 14 July 2016 08:17:19 Alan McKinnon wrote:
4 > > > -N is newuse, portage also considers packages whose USE has changed.
5 > > > -t is emptytree, portage also considers the entire tree and -u tells it
6 > > > to not remerge things that don't need updating.
7 > >
8 > > Um, -e is --emptytree, no? -t is just --tree. But yeah, according to his
9 > > first email, James did leave out -N the second time around ("emerge -uvDNp
10 > > world" vs. "emerge -uDtv @world").
11 >
12 > Sorry for the interrupting a big gurus, but in my humble opinion
13 > the reason why there was no compilation while running emerge for
14 > the first time is the -p option (pretend).
15
16 I'm no guru, I was merely exploiting a rare opportunity to correct Alan ;-) .
17
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19 Marc Joliet
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21 "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
22 don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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