On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:52:41 +0200 Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 July 2016 08:17:19 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > -N is newuse, portage also considers packages whose USE has changed. > > -t is emptytree, portage also considers the entire tree and -u tells it > > to not remerge things that don't need updating. > > Um, -e is --emptytree, no? -t is just --tree. But yeah, according to his > first email, James did leave out -N the second time around ("emerge -uvDNp > world" vs. "emerge -uDtv @world"). Sorry for the interrupting a big gurus, but in my humble opinion the reason why there was no compilation while running emerge for the first time is the -p option (pretend).