[ale] Testing

J. D. jdonline at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 09:01:19 EST 2005


Oooh nice. Thanks for the tips Jason and Jeff. Saving keystrokes is good. ;)

J. D.


> 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
>
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