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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] non-existing/masked ebuilds during upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:55:24
Message-Id: 1173897897.23418.24.camel@blackwidow.nbk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] non-existing/masked ebuilds during upgrade from 2005.1 to 2006.1 by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:56 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > emerge -e world upgrades too, because it considers that you have
3 > nothing
4 > installed, so it tries to install the latest version. However, emerge
5 > -uDN world is sufficient as it will cover all updates and USE flag
6 > changes.
7 >
8
9 Agreed, and I should also tell the OP that 'emaint --check world' will
10 also help point out any stale packages and other things in your world
11 file.
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14 Albert W. Hopkins
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