-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 17 June 2003 14:18, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:33:11 +0300 Erik S. Johansen wrote: > > When you want a single unstable package, it's worth a try doing > > > > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -u --nodeps packagename > > > > You'd ofcourse have to do > > emerge -up packagename > > first, in order to verify that you have all the dependancies of the > > stable package installed. Odds are that the unstable depends on the > > same packages and that the --nodeps emerge will work just fine. > > Please don't use -u with single packages unless you're sure you know > what you're doing. The description is a bit irritating, you can update a > package without -u as it is for updating dependencies (and --deep is for > 2nd level dependencies). So -u --nodeps is really pointless.
Yes, if you know ahead you dont have the package installed it is. If you just want to "upgrade if it can be upgraded" -u --nodeps is good for ~x86 packages. - --Erik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+7vpXds9m9uhAobARAlosAJ0eXn6+v5whzzThZ+WLku2SKAYp4ACcC2N8 hDCYdY8cuFGpAZBKsxgtt7E= =KO8K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
