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From: Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@leetworks.com>
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Chris Gianelloni wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 12:34 -0700, ian douglas wrote:
>
>>I've been using Gentoo since one of the 2003 releases, and never
understood this
>>behavior and was wondering if someone could enlighten me:
>>
>>Currently on a 2005.0 install:
>>
>># emerge --sync;emerge -puvN world
>
>
>Ehh... what does "emerge -N" do? I see no mention of such a thing in
>"emerge --help".
>
>Also, try using --deep (-D) when doing checks against world.
>
Actually i believe -N is documented, but it might not be clear..
-N is a short option equal to --newuse .. its a good idea to do.

Regards, Andrew

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