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adam Joined: Mar 01, 2009 Posts: 6 Location:downey,ca Other Topics	Posted Mar 05, 2009 at 7:20:45 AM Subject: gentoo emerge What is the difference between "emerge -e" and "emerge -N" .. i know that "emerge -e" reinstalls all world packages using the new USE flags, but doesnt "emerge -N world" too?
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Reed Joined Feb 07, 2008 Posts: 758 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 05, 2009 2:47:46 PM Subject: gentoo emerge I've never used Gentoo, but glancing at the man page for emerge (http://linuxreviews.org/man/emerge/), the difference seems to be that -N would be used if you change the USE flags individually on some packages, and want to recompile them based on the new flags, while leaving the rest of the system untouched, and -e is used to update your whole system to the currently set USE flags. [Modified by: Reed on March 05, 2009 09:48 AM] [Modified by: Reed on March 05, 2009 09:48 AM]
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adam Joined Mar 01, 2009 Posts: 6 Location:downey,ca Other Topics	Posted: Mar 05, 2009 6:51:51 PM Subject: gentoo emerge "emerge -uDN system" and "emerge -uDN world" would do that too.
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