On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:35:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote:

> > Only one, portage will barf when you have a world file containing  
> 
> I've never seen that, and yes, I've been known to add a package atom to
> the end of the world file when I wanted to update world, and add a
> package at the same time (xfce4 was the last time I  think, a month or
> so ago), and didn't want to do it in two commands.....

OK, that's changed then. The last time I transferred an installation,
Portage really didn't like having non-installed packages in world.
 
> In that cases I was adding a whole DE, so was also changing lots of USE
> flags, so wanted an emerge -uDavN world to just update all the use flags
> at once.... echo "xfce-base/xfce4" >> /var/lib/portage/world followed by
> emerge -uDavN world worked a treat.....

That's still two commands :) You can do it in one with

emerge -uavDN @world xfce4
 

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Neil Bothwick

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