On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Douglas J Hunley <doug.hun...@gmail.com> wrote: > You seem to be slightly confusing two different things. There is 'emerge > --sync' (or emerge-webrsync) which maintains your copy of the portage tree > and then there's 'emerge --update' which actually downloads the source, > compiles, and then installs it. ...
Well actually what I am I thinking is that doing a sync operation, makes portage aware of new packages and when I for any reason give the "emerge --update ..." command it tries to fetch new packages. Although I don't know if any situation forces me to issue update on a outdated portage tree!!!
