On Oct 16, 2003, at 11:42 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:


On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote:
Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world

Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u?

I don't really.


...Any particular reason why you would advise new users to keep
broken packages on their system?

No particular reason. I was just in a hurry this morning to (be helpful / show how clever I am) [delete as applicable] and wasn't really paying attention.


I'm sorry for my typo & apologise if I misadvised anyone. In my defense, in this *particular* instance, I doubt that it'll make much difference - I don't think there will be too many downgrades to an install CD which was perhaps burned a week or two ago.

Stroller.


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