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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's the difference between the emerge options -u and -n?
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 09:55:53 +0000
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On Saturday, 28 November 2020 20:00:01 GMT n952162 wrote:
> Assuming no "emerge --sync" has been done, e.g.
> 
> I've been using -u to mean, "don't update if there's nothing new" (which
> I would actually think would be the default).  Maybe that's wrong?  -n
> is better?

... or did you mean -N?

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Regards,
Peter.