begin quote On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:58:33 -0800 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 10:28, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Saturday 06 December 2003 19:18, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Has this been discussed? Why do I need to specify > > > net-misc/rsync? > > > > Because currently "emerge sync" and "emerge rsync" mean the same > > thing. See > > man emerge. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Renat > > Ahh.....so the word rsync is an option, and is also a package name, > hence a conflict? Yep. early versions of portage only allowed "category/pack" style emerges, so it wasn't a conflict then, one word things was always a command. then it got simpler, and there became a conflict. Now "sync" is the preferred way, and rsync is being deprecated. one of theese days "emerge rsync" won't be an alias of "emerge sync" anymore, and things will work again. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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