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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:10 pm    Post subject: [Proposal] Better documention and information of Portage Reply with quote

When I found Rac's post (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=35506) I found some new (to me) parameter of emerge command parameter "-U".

I started with "man emerge", no information!
Then I found it with "emerge -h".

There is no information about --onlyupgrade/-U (and -D) in manpage!!!
Not either in the portage-user doc (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/portage-user.xml)

Portage is the most important tool in Gentoo!
Where should I've found this information (as a normal lazy user)?
Do I have to live on the Forum, IRC, Bugzilla and maillinglist 24 hours a day or what?

Think if you got 2 new functions on your brakepedal in the car but not any information on it (and not in the owners manual either).

I think when central tools and apps gets updated with new functionality (or "out of order") it should be a "Flash" about it on the gentoo.org mainpage!
Rac's post (link at top) should have (had) a Flash for example (I think).

Some daily newsfeed would be nice also on the mainpage as complement to GWN.


My 2 USE flags
Claes

(Updated: -D instead of -P and GWN instead of LWN)


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

People make mistakes.

Did you search https://bugs.gentoo.org/ to see if someone else reported it? Did you report it?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All options NOT found in the manpage of emerge:

-l (changelog) [1]
-p (quiet) [1]
-B (buildpkgonly) [1]
-D (deep)
-K (usepkgonly) [1]
-O (nodeps)
-U (upgradeonly) [1]
-V (version)

[1] "Long option" isn't either documented in manpage

Should the manpage get fixed, wiped or replaced with the text "run: emerge -h"?

Yes I should write a Bugzilla report!
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