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ClaesBas n00b
Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 38 Location: Stockholm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:10 pm Post subject: [Proposal] Better documention and information of Portage |
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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)
Last edited by ClaesBas on Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:04 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Pythonhead Developer
Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 1801 Location: Redondo Beach, Republic of Calif.
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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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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ClaesBas n00b
Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 38 Location: Stockholm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:56 am Post subject: |
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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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