maillog: 02/02/2005-03:41:33(-0700): Duncan types > (Being a bit familiar with the idea of having multiple versions around > from my time on Mandrake, however, and why it worked that way, having so > many didn't alarm me here. I just noted with curiosity that it was > merging a couple versions marked as "new" and wondered why they were > "new" instead of "upgrade", assuming simply that nothing had required them > before, but a new arrangement was merging the latest version of each > one, now, as part of "system", which made sense to me. That's why I noted > they were "new" and not upgrades. I was surprised not by how many there > were, but that a couple versions hadn't been merged before and were > showing up as "new", while the rest were all upgrade as I expected.)
Well, an (up|down)grade in portage terms is when you install a different version of a package in the same SLOT. So, all those that showed up as new were actually in a SLOT that you didn't have before. Like 1.6, 1.7... -- | Georgi Georgiev | Regression analysis: Mathematical | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | techniques for trying to understand why | | +81(90)6266-1163 | things are getting worse. | -- [email protected] mailing list
