On Tue, June 14, 2005 1:09 pm, Fernando Meira said: > after installing gentoo i did: > emerge --update --deep --newuse world > > And i'm still on that since the past 2:30 hours. I thought that after > installing quite recent packages, a fully update would be fast.. :( I was > not expecting that it would upgrade and recompile everything...
Always run this with --ask --verbose, so you can see what is going to happen first. Did you change your USE flags after installation? That could cause a lot of recompilation. Or it could be one large package that has been updated. There was a new xorg-x11 update in ~arch recently, for example. > So, if emerge does not finish soon, i'll have to stop it, so the question > is: there's any way to do it in a good way, without breaking the system? Provided it is not at the stage of installing files, just press Ctrl-C. If you are still seeing compiler output, it is safe, if you see lots of lines starting with >>, installation is almost complete, be patient. -- Neil Bothwick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
