On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:04:49 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:

> > emerge --unmerge pam-login && emerge --update shadow
> > emerge --unmerge utempter && emerge --update libutempter
> 
> No need to use --update there, --update is the default.

No it's not. emerge behaves differently when you use --update, in two
ways. I doesn't re-emerge the package if the same version is already
installed, and it updates first-level dependencies, whereas emerge without
update only installs the package itself, plus any required dependencies.

> Use --oneshot instead, so shadow and libutempter don't end up in 
> your world file.

Good advice!


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