Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Sorry for the interrupting a big gurus, but in my humble opinion > > the reason why there was no compilation while running emerge for > > the first time is the -p option (pretend). > No, even without -p the first command wouldn't have done anything, because "Total: 0 packages". > There simple was nothing to do! The second command showed "3 Packages". Exactly! Pointless minutia, unless someone has knowledge of how the code has changed over the last few years, related to those flags that change. emerge -uvDNp world emerge -uvDN world emerge -uDtv @world For sure 'N' and 't' are the specific flags that cause the differences in behavior. So it was a just a 'moral booster' and a general 'shout out' for those devs. If I really cared, and I do not have time to (deeply) care about these improvements, I'd go to github and look at the codes that have changed over the last few years, specifically realted to those aforementioned flags..... So if you look here:: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage You can see the dev listing for the '[email protected]' whom collectively are doing an excellent job:: and that's my point. hth, James
