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

[Dale]

Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote:
> Actually, -u doesn't mean update, means filter packages that are not
> updatable (are already the most recent version).
> It's a filter option, not an action. Portage doesn't work with actions.
>
>

Not according to the man page:

        --update (-u)
               Updates packages to the best version available, which may 
not always be the  highest version number due to masking for testing and 
develop‐
               ment.  Package  atoms  specified on the command line are 
greedy, meaning that unspecific atoms may match multiple versions of 
slotted pack‐
               ages.

It is a command line, or make.conf, option but it tells emerge what to 
do.  It's no different than -D or -N.  They are all options but they 
tell portage what you want it to do.  Update means update.  That's why 
it is called update instead of something else.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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