On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:42:45 +0300 Sergey Popov <pinkb...@gentoo.org> wrote: > 17.01.2015 18:51, Ciaran McCreesh пишет: > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 19:49:24 +0400 > > Сергей <protsero...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Any random user can tell you: -u means UPDATE, -D means DEEP > >> (follow dependencies). > > > > And what do those actually mean? > > Do you need citation from 'man portage'? :-)
Well no, because that doesn't answer the question... > -D usually adds to deptree more deps, than usual 'world'(if we are > still talking about 'emerge -uDN world') like deps of deps, etc, > until full tree will be built. > > Maybe i am not totally correct You're not totally correct. > And 'man portage' is telling me pretty much the same things Right, which brings us back to the original point: very few people actually understand what those options *really* do, so claiming that Portage has an intuitive or obvious commandline is rather questionable. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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