Re: [gentoo-amd64] Errors when doing an emerge -uD world

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Monday 17 October 2005 04:51, John C. Shimek wrote:
> >>emm, is not -uD something almost everybody does, but nobody should do?
> >>
> >>I had the same error - AFAIR reemerging java-config solved it.
>
> No, -uD is update deep, -UD is what you should NOT be doing.  the U
> means update only.  The difference is if say package-1.45 was marked
> stable and then found to be buggy, it gets masked in some way.  Then
> package-1.44 would be the most current stable package.  The U flag says
> not to go back to the 1.44 package.  On the other hand, the -u flag will
> "upgrade" to an older package if it is currently the newest unmasked or
> stable package.

-U is the OTHER flag you should never use ;)

If I remember correctly, a lot of time ago, it was said that you should not 
use -d, and must not use  -U  ....

but ok, everybody chooses his own poison.
I never do --deep updates, but occasionally -U update, because I am not 
willing to fiddle around with /etc/portage/package.mask /-.unmask for 
something that will be/should be marked stable in the next few days....
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