On Friday 02 February 2007 21:29:33 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Also, if you use the long option name you must use two dashes '--' and not
> one '-'.  You argument '-update' is equivalent to '-u -p -d -a -t -e',
> which includes (among other things) the -e (--emptytree) flag, forcing
> emerge to pretend you have no packages installed.

Haha. Nice catch!

-update == --update --pretend --debug --ask --tree --emptytree

All of those options are valid and with --debug and --emptytree that's going 
to give a scary amount of output...

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Bo Andresen