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From: Tony Clark <tclark@telia.com>
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Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 10:42:17 +0200
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge -u program
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On Thursday 01 May 2003 10.32, mike wakerly wrote:
> On Thursday 01 May 2003 07:51 am, Tony Clark wrote:
> > My glibc and gcc aren't in stable release yet but when I went to upgrade
> > a program it wanted to downgrade these.  I can understand this behaviour
> > when using emerge -u world but it doesn't make sence IMHO for a specific
> > program. Not sure I can call it a bug, but it seems strange behaviour.
>
> You might want to use -U; it's the upgrade-only flag.

I know how to solve the problem, but it isn't my point.  My question is sho=
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emerge -u someprogram be allowed to down grade other programs in the proces=
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unless DEPEND < current_installed_versions are actually specificed in the=20
ebuild.  No problem with world behaviour, there I believe it does the corre=
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thing.

tony
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