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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2006-10-09 20:44:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2006-10-09 20:44:33 +0000 |
| commit | a948b62e27679033e5f0a6a2fd25706a50c5cd12 (patch) | |
| tree | 3356159e6043f7c93cbdcb4cb5c0c6d5751c04a9 | |
| parent | 102881ef40568e1316bab693eb9fa35d6b6ceec5 (diff) | |
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Document greedy atoms for the --update option.
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diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 9fe706cfb..040305941 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -184,8 +184,9 @@ system. Its arguments can be \fIebuilds\fR, \fIsets\fR, or .BR "\-\-update " (\fB\-u\fR) Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will -also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. In general, -use this option only in combination with the world or system target. +also update direct dependencies which may not be what you want. Package atoms +specified on the command line are greedy, meaning that unspecific atoms may +match multiple installed versions of slotted packages. .TP .BR "\-\-version " (\fB\-V\fR) Displays the version number of \fBemerge\fR. |