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From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>
To: vapier@gentoo.org
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 03:12:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wxx65lmqgp7.fsf@nommo.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307282047.36438.vapier@gentoo.org> (Mike Frysinger's message of "Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:47:32 -0400")

Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Monday 28 July 2003 20:37, Terje Kvernes wrote:
>
> > how does this look for the text to explain F? 
> 
> sound good, i updated the manpage in cvs with your description

  thanks!
 
> > oh, and it would be nice to be able to say "postpone F-related
> > packages" via a switch or something, they make "emerge -U world"
> > break rather annoyingly and await user interaction.
> 
> file a bug ;)

  if I find a good solution, I will.  ;-)
 
> > I'm sorry for not producing a patch, but I'm not exactly sure
> > where the emerge documentation source is located.  :-)
> 
> it's in cvs with the rest of the portage package
> ... gentoo-src/portage/man/ ... besides, you could have always just
> done a diff against your local copy of the manpage.

  I wasn't quite expecting that the documentation is actually kept in
  *roff.  :-)

-- 
Terje

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-29  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29  0:37 [gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'? Terje Kvernes
2003-07-29  0:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2003-07-29  1:12   ` Terje Kvernes [this message]
2003-07-29  4:11 ` Amiel Martin
2003-07-29  4:26   ` Georgi Georgiev

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