[ale] gentoo emerge update question

[CharlesM at Media-Brokers.com (Charles Marcus)]

> From: John Wells [mailto:jb at sourceillustrated.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:23 AM
>
> trying to update one of my boxes running gentoo with the command:
> emerge update

Also, it is strongly advised that you always do a pretend emerge, just to
make sure its not gonna do something you don't want it to do:

emerge -up world

('u' is for 'update', 'p' is for 'pretend'

Charles


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