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> On 3 Jan 2018, at 22:47, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> What do you mean by this exactly, please? |
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>>> =4.9.34 selects that exact version and only that specific version |
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>>> ~4.9.34 select that version and also 4.9.34-r1. There might need to be a |
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>>> * on the end of ~4.9.34, I don;t quite recall. Answer in portage's man pages |
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>> I thought it was something like that, but searched `man portage` for "~" more than one way, and didn't find reference to this. Am I blind? |
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> man 5 ebuild |
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> Section "Extended Atom Prefixes", it is near the top, probably first |
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> page on most screen sizes. |
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> The location is very non-obvious, I only know of it because I refr to it |
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> often once I found it |
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The ability to block atoms looks interesting, although I can't think when I'd use it. |
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Stroller. |