emerge -U deprecated?

Sir_Stinksalot · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject: emerge -U deprecated?

Please explain, I love this feature why is it going bye bye. I don't want it to go bye bye. Is it too hard to maintain? Are bugs being reported as a result of using it? Please explain I can't seem to find anyone complaining about it.

TrueDFX · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 1348

Usually, if a package that you could install before can no longer be installed, it's for a good reason (bugs that you haven't yet run into). -U lets you keep these packages on your system without you even knowing you probably shouldn't.

Why do you need -U? If a package is masked and you want it anyway, tell portage this via the files in /etc/portage (man portage for details).

Koroviev · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Scotland

It's discussed here
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=129140&highlight=emerge+deprecated

tomk · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming, please see the topic mentioned above.
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