On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:33:46PM +0100, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote: > I run once per day an emerge sync to see which packages are update and I have > two questions about it.
I've found that once per day is too much for me - once every several keeps my sufficiently up-to-date and eases the load on Gentoo's mirrors. Your situation may be different. > 2.) Why does the list sometimes include packages where there is an N in the > status? I thought emerge only shows me packages we could be updated indicating > this with an U and D. N means not installed? Or what exactly does it mean when > it writes this? I'm assuming you used the -D option; the package now depends on another which you do not have installed, or you changed your USE flags such that the package requires additional ones.
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