From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DieDf-0002A2-5H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:10:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5FK92gx020251; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:09:02 GMT Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (mta13.mail.adelphia.net [68.168.78.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5FK7IBl013462 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 20:07:18 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.165] (really [69.163.5.47]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050615200809.IGVI4191.mta13.adelphia.net@[192.168.0.165]> for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:08:09 -0400 Message-ID: <42B08AA9.8050509@leetworks.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 16:08:09 -0400 From: Andrew Muraco <tuxp3@leetworks.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050601) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newb question about emerge ... References: <20050615123438.iribsm6sp5essscg@www.w98.us> <1118865612.14164.40.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1118865612.14164.40.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 25b7ea20-23e4-4880-89e8-2c46a1276576 X-Archives-Hash: 5a66f356b185f17d17fde173f3b752b3 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list