Patrick Börjesson wrote:
But is this really what one should expect from an update? Shouldn't
emerge just _not_ modify the world file when one gives the -u flag?
Well, i'm really not a gentoo expert (4 weeks ago i didn't know
anything about it), but at the moment i fired that command, i saw
emerge p
* Oliver Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-11 19:20]:
> You're right, one should expect that an upgrade option shouldn't
> install new packages from scratch
emerge(1) says that -u is 'update' not 'upgrade' - it updates your
system to have the latest version of a pkg, i.e. "install pkg X version
> > emerge -Du `qpkg -I -nc` -vp
> >
>
> We already had the same thread 1 or 2 weeks ago. Not using the
> --oneshot option will *screw up* your world favorites file, so
> you won't be able to have emerge depclean your system after firing
> that command. Never tell anyone to use this without addin
