On 14/07/2016 04:03, James wrote: >> It's unsurprising you got different behaviour > true, but the -u was in both and a complete different set of > packages was considered, by portage, and only one was able to > move forward (note the -p was not in the second entry, despite > my not including that detail).
without -N or -t, portage considers just the list of packages on the command line. -N is newuse, portage also considers packages whose USE has changed. -t is emptytree, portage also considers the entire tree and -u tells it to not remerge things that don't need updating. The input set for those commands differs, so the output set might also be different. Those two commands you ran are not guaranteed to produce the same results (although the often will). -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
