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On 01/02/2012 11:25 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> Look at it this way: |
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> with emerge<package> you tell portage to install a package and add it to |
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> world. Period. The package will be installed, no matter whether it’s at the |
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> newest version or not. With -u, however, you tell emerge to only do the |
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> installation if the package is actually upgradable. So it’s not an action |
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> (“upgrade this package”), but an option (“install only if upgradable”). |
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I have no problem seeing it that way, and don't have a semantic |
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preference for one or the other. My problem is that the current behavior |
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can screw up your world file, whereas the old behavior could not. |
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