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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:50:36 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> * Nobody would use --update to install a new package |
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> Actually, that's a good reason to use --update on a single package, as |
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> it installs a new package, but does not reinstall an existing package, |
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> so you can emerge -u a list of packages and only install the new ones. |
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> However, you can now do that with -n, which does add to world, so this |
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> can also be used as an argument for -u to not touch world. I'm leaning |
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> towards the view that I would prefer world to be untouched, but, as I |
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> said, there's no compelling argument one way or the other. |
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> Maybe you can file a bug report that gets enough votes to persuade Zac to |
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> add a configuration option for this, or write the patch yourself. |
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Personally, I'd *really* prefer not to have package manager semantics |
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switch out from under me. |
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