On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Mark Knecht wrote: > Basically, and I'm sure you know this, but > > man emerge > > has more information than I can ever give you, and it's actually quite a > good man page once I got over my fear of it. Just take some time and > learn the basics > > emerge sync > emerge -s name > emerge -S name > emerge -pv name
Prune Verbose. This one scares me, but that's because the man page doesn't give enough on ie. If, I had version 1.2 and 1.3 of the same package installed, if I'm understanding correctly -p will remove 1.2, but leave 1.3 intact. Seems simple enough, but if that's all there is, why does the man page have additional warnings not to use this varient? > emerge -Upv name > emerge -Upv world > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" on the above EXCEPT not on world, in my opinion, > but that's up to you. I'm no guru. One of these days I'll be learning > from you. This last comment, I don't get. If I understand correctly (althouhg I may not) ~x86 says to use the latest still-in-testing version. After Fedora, I've had enough of testing, unstable, and bleeding edge packages. (4 kernel upgrades in 2 days... And that's the *stable* branch! Xine still goesn't work right, consistently.) Is the ~x86 branch more stable than other distros? (For instance Debian unstable has a long history of being even more stable than some stable branches of other Linux distros.) And what's the difference between ~x86 and ~xi386? Is there some way I can tell when I'll need to use one of those flags in advance of trying out the stable version of the package? Krikket -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
