On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 10:26:02AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/02/2012 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > So when the user tells portage to emerge (not merge) something it goes > > in world as obviously that's what the user wanted. Presumably the user > > knows what they are doing and can deal with both pieces. If the user > > would rather have software hold his hand, that user is better served by > > Windows or Ubuntu or any number of user-centric distros, but probably > > not by Gentoo. > > > > This isn't elitist, it's just the way things are. Portage's job is to > > listen to *you*, not to to tell you what you want. The automation > > portage provides is just the logical conclusion of what should happen > > in future after you emerged something. > > > > That unspoken agreement is only beneficial if I have the means by which > to tell portage what I want it to do. The problem lies at a higher > level: I think I'm telling portage to update a package, but that's not > what --update means. It's hard for me to tell portage what I want it to > do, so the fact that it assumes I know what I'm doing isn't constructive.
Look at it this way: with emerge <package> you tell portage to install a package and add it to world. Period. The package will be installed, no matter whether it’s at the newest version or not. With -u, however, you tell emerge to only do the installation if the package is actually upgradable. So it’s not an action (“upgrade this package”), but an option (“install only if upgradable”). -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. The bad thing about Wikipedia jokes is - Deleted due to lack of relevance. -
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