Re: Emerge --resume --skipfirst

Dale <[email protected]> writes:

>> You may remember that I started this thread with an observation 
>> that --resume
>> --skipfirst has been superseded, but that's what I needed to 
>> do.
>>
>> Full circle...
>>
>
> I'm not aware of anything changing.  Are there any docs for 
> these
> changes?  I wish they would post on this list when things 
> changes.

Yes, i'd be interested in a link to the referenced dev's comments; 
i'm not aware of any such change(s) myself, and it's the sort of 
thing that would probably come up on the Web forums (which is the 
primary place people seek support[a]). There's nothing in the 
emerge(1) man page entries for `--resume` and `--skipfirst` to 
indicate that they've been superseded by some other approach, or 
just generally deprecated.


Alexis.

[a] i much prefer mailing lists over Web forums myself, for 
various reasons, but my experience is that nowadays, the majority 
of users have the reverse preference, and strongly so.