From 7ab4d5722a828167dd1bf946b26cfa80808f59fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:45:46 -0700 Subject: Remove FEATURES=fixpackages support. This reduces the probability of users encountering issues related to package moves when they disable --dynamic-deps, and --package-moves=n can be set in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS if package moves need to be temporarily avoided for some reason. --- man/emerge.1 | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/emerge.1') diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 10be7895c..6088cdc0d 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -415,13 +415,11 @@ installed packages to vary dynamically when source ebuild dependencies are modified. This option is enabled by default. \fBWARNING:\fR -If \-\-dynamic\-deps is disabled, then it is necessary to ensure that -an alternative method is used to handle package moves in dependencies -of installed packages. Normally, this is handled by -FEATURES="fixpackages", which is enabled by default and may be -disabled via \fBmake.conf\fR(5). Alternatively, in order to manually -apply package moves, run `emaint \-\-fix moveinst` after each -emerge \-\-sync operation (see \fBemaint\fR(1)). +If you want to disable \-\-dynamic\-deps, then it may be necessary to +first run \fBfixpackages\fR in order to get the best results. The +\fBfixpackages\fR command performs two different operations that can +also be performed separately by the `emaint \-\-fix moveinst` and +`emaint \-\-fix movebin` commands (see \fBemaint\fR(1)). .TP .BR "\-\-emptytree " (\fB\-e\fR) Reinstalls target atoms and their entire deep -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22