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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2009-10-24 07:04:32 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2009-10-24 07:04:32 +0000
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Add a --unordered-display option for use with --tree. This allows the display
to be optimized differently since the merge order is not preserved. Thanks to Sebastian Mingramm (few) for the initial patch. (trunk r14703) svn path=/main/branches/2.1.7/; revision=14712
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@@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ system. Its arguments can be \fIatoms\fR or
\fIebuilds\fR. For a dependency aware version of \fB\-\-unmerge\fR,
use \fB\-\-depclean\fR or \fB\-\-prune\fR.
.TP
+.BR "\-\-unordered-display "
+By default the displayed merge list is sorted using the order in
+which the packages will be merged. When \fB\-\-tree\fR is used together
+with this option, this constraint is removed, hopefully leading to a
+more readable dependency tree.
+.TP
.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.