[ale] Testing

Jason Day jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Fri Nov 18 19:50:03 EST 2005


On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 07:17:12PM -0500, J. D. wrote:
> # emerge -puD --newuse world
> # emerge -uD --newuse world

You can replace both of these lines with a single command:

# emerge -uaD --newuse world

The -a switch stands for "ask"; unlike -p, it does not calculate all the
dependencies twice.

Also, you only need --newuse if you've changed your USE flags in
/etc/make.conf.  Otherwise it doesn't do anything.

One more tip: the -v switch tells you which use flags will be in effect
when a given package is merged:

# emerge -uaDv world

HTH,
Jason
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