On 28/03/13 11:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:48:21PM +0400, the guard wrote: > > > >> Среда, 27 марта 2013, 18:09 UTC от Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de>: >>> Hi, Gentoo! > >>> Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and >>> got a list of ~100 packages to merge. About a third of them seem to be >>> new perl stuff, 13 packages with gnome, and a lot of this and that. > >>> Most worrying is sys-fs/udisks-2.1.0. Should I be worried about this >>> (all my other udev-ish stuff is up to date), or will it just work? > >>> But getting such a large update, all at once, seems worrying. Should I >>> worry about anything, or just plough ahead with the update? > >>> -- >>> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > >> depends on how long it's been since you had the last uodate > > A couple of days at most. I've never seen such a large update, except > for when I'd just installed Gentoo. > I recently had ‘emerge -avutND’ throw 713 packages at me after not updating for a couple of weeks. It took me a few days to get it back to an updated state but I managed.
~100 packages is not unusual if you don't update for a week or so, especially if something gets an update that other things depend on at which point it might remerge all those packages as well. I wouldn't worry. -- Mateusz K.
