On Wednesday 12 February 2003 16:58, Carl Hudkins wrote: > On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:45, Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote: > > -u means upgrade. > > More specifically, -u looks at all of the dependencies of the > specified package (or group) to see if any of them has an upgrade > available -- whether needed or not. Normal "emerge somepackage" only > checks the package itself, and will only display dependency upgrades > if they are required to bring the specified package up to the new > level.
And the borknes mentioned in the man pages means the fact that if you try to --update package that allready is uptodate it wont check the dependencies use --deep for this. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
