From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what's the difference between the emerge options -u and -n?
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:15:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJjrzcWnG3LNzXunu=2zotAhXrCr-pZiknfCzerSvdp4f7EkLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33fe67a0-640d-5964-b82c-af041f2233ae@web.de>
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 21:04, n952162 <n952162@web.de> 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?
In my book, there's only one reason to ever use -n, and that's if
you've installed a package with -1 (--oneshot), and want to add it to
your world file, so that it doesn't get depcleaned. Use -u for your
regular system updates.
Regards,
Arve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-28 20:16 UTC|newest]
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2020-11-28 20:00 [gentoo-user] what's the difference between the emerge options -u and -n? n952162
2020-11-28 20:15 ` Arve Barsnes [this message]
2020-11-28 20:28 ` Dale
2020-11-29 9:55 ` Peter Humphrey
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