Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 11:33:38 BST Dale wrote: > >> The info from the man page is correct. > Of course it is. There'd be uproar if it weren't. > >> They do two different things. The -N will mean more recompiles of packages >> but it also means that when a USE flag change is made, it also changes any >> packages that relates to that. In other words, it goes deeper. > I don't know why you think it goes deeper, Dale. It's a question of candidate > selection, not depth of analysis. > > -U: if a package doesn't need to be updated on your system today, it'll be > left until it does. > > -N: if any USE flag at all has changed in a package, it'll be recompiled, > whether it needs to be on your system or not. >
When I say deeper, I mean it will find more packages that may not be found otherwise. The deeper the hole I dig, the more dirt I have. That sort of thing. Maybe it should be phrased another way??? Dale :-) :-)
