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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge --pretend update questions.
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On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:51:23PM -0500, Thomas Landmann wrote:
> Is there a switch to tell emerge update to not remerge existing packages,
> but to only emerge newer packages?

Please note as of today (23 Aug 2001), "emerge update" is experimental and
doesn't always get things right.  That's probably why it is remerging several
packages that have already been installed.

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