On Fri, 2011-11-25 at 22:30 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:59:51 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > I've used Gentoo since 2006 and never had any reason to emerge -e. > > Apart from the occasional gcc ABI change, the only time I do it is after > a fresh install, so that everything is built with the installed toolchain.
I do it about once per month, just to make sure everthing works as should, and, if not, usually I'll submit a bug report if necessary.