> Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this > automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if > not just > > emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow > > then emerge -avuND world. > > No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from getting it over and > done with while you watch and confirm it works fine. Then do world and wander > over to the kettle letting portage go on with doing it's thing unattended
For my own comfort, on a case like this, if I didn't have the portage FEATURE buildpkg or buildsyspkg turned on, I'd make sure that was on and that I had a functional backup of shadow to install from binary, in case something went very wrong. But I tend to be extremely cautious in terms of how I maintain my system, and a lot of that caution is just paranoia. ~daid
