On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:42:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's just a convention. revdep-rebuild launches some other process > (emerge) so when it does that it takes everything it finds on it's own > command line after the " -- " and passes it on to emerge literally. > > it's quite a common trick, startx/xinit also do the same thing, for the > same reason.
In general it means "end of options", anything after the -- is considered an argument to the program rather than an option. For example, suppose you managed to create a file called -f, rm -f wouldn't work, but rm -- -f would. -- Neil Bothwick Procedure: (n.) a method of performing a program sub-task in an inefficient way by extensively using the stack instead of a GOTO.
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