On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:07:13AM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Willie Wong <ww...@princeton.edu> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me when emerge -U disappeared? > > > > I have never used it myself, but I just looked at "man emerge", and I > > don't see that option anymore. > > > > W > > I have no recollection of -U at all. I've used -DuN for years. What do > you remember what you thought -U was doing? >
--upgradeonly meaning: if *best* available version in portage tree has lower version number then the installed version, do not downgrade. For example, look at this bug report from 2004 http://bugs.gentoo.org/36334 which refers to the --upgradeonly flag that is not in "man emerge" anymore, and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/86473/focus=87085 a post on this very list from June 30, 2004, also mentiones the -U flag. Come on, I am only 25! I can't be the only *old-timer* who remembers this option! W -- "Why does the chicken cross the road?" Einstein: it's not the chicken crossing the road, it is the road crossing the chicken." Heisenberg: well, if you know it is moving, you can't know where it is; and if you know where it is, you can't really know where it's going. Therefore you can't know for certain that the chicken is actually crossing the road. von Neumann: it satisfies the Minimax theorem for worm finding. Schroedinger: not really. It is in the state of crossing and not crossing at the same time. Until you observe it, you can't really be sure. Pauli: Well, it must be that there's another chicken of the same shape, size, color, taste, smell, etc. on this side of the road... Newton: an unbalanced force Bohr: Because it is excited, and because it can't stay on the road... Feynman: (dum, dum, dong, dum-da, dum, dong) Ah... Old MacDonald had a farm... E I E I O.... And on this farm he has a chicken... E I E I O.... Sortir en Pantoufles: up 767 days, 15:54
