On 07/29/03 Steven Elling wrote: > What is the difference between "emerge sync" and "emerge rsync"? > > I've read that several people use "emerge sync" but I always do > "emerge rsync" according to the older x86 Install docs. > > Is the only difference that rsync updates the cache using server-side > caches?
There is no difference, they are synonyms. emerge rsync is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future version. The reason is that you some can expect for emerge rsync to actually install the rsync package, currently you have to emerge net-misc/rsync for that. Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
