> On 3 Jan 2018, at 22:47, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> >>>> What do you mean by this exactly, please? >>> >>> =4.9.34 selects that exact version and only that specific version >>> ~4.9.34 select that version and also 4.9.34-r1. There might need to be a >>> * on the end of ~4.9.34, I don;t quite recall. Answer in portage's man pages >> >> I thought it was something like that, but searched `man portage` for "~" >> more than one way, and didn't find reference to this. Am I blind? > > man 5 ebuild > > Section "Extended Atom Prefixes", it is near the top, probably first > page on most screen sizes. > > The location is very non-obvious, I only know of it because I refr to it > often once I found it
The ability to block atoms looks interesting, although I can't think when I'd use it. Stroller.
