From: "Peter Kadau" <peter.kadau@web.de>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge --pretend update questions.
Date: Thu Aug 23 12:34:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108232038.f7NKcjp25365@mailgate3.cinetic.de> (raw)
hi !
> when executed on my current system, i see many lines of this:
[snip]
> Q1: what does the R stand for? i'm pretty sure i understand N and U, and
> my first guess for R would be 'remove'.
no, the only way to remove a package right now is this
"ebuild /var/db/pkg/<cat>/<pkg>/<ebuild> unmerge"
you cited.
it just means "remerge", i.e. build and install again with your
new USE flags and the like.
> thanks,
> j
hth and is adequate
ciao
peter
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2001-08-23 12:34 Peter Kadau [this message]
2001-08-23 12:53 ` [gentoo-dev] emerge --pretend update questions Thomas Landmann
2001-08-23 22:34 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-08-23 13:00 ` jasonm
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2001-08-23 16:00 Peter Kadau
2001-08-23 15:48 Peter Kadau
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2001-08-23 11:56 ` jasonm
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