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

["John C. Shimek" <jcshimek@mn.rr.com>]

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>>emm, is not -uD something almost everybody does, but nobody should do?
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>>I had the same error - AFAIR reemerging java-config solved it.
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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. 

I think the biggest problem, I could be wrong thoug, is that usually 
when packages get remasked like that and upgrades go backwards, it is a 
security problem.  And even that seems to be uncommon.  I have not ever 
seen one of my packages go backwards but I could have missed one or two.
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