On 16/08/2016 00:02, james wrote: > Well, > > I brought this up before. No need for argument, just test it out > for yourself. > > Multiple times (over the last few weeks) I have run 'emerge -uDNvp > @world' and there are issues to deal with manually. > > For example 'One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a > dependency conflict', type of fudd and other types of fudd is the > result, not all the time, but maybe 50% of the time. > > > Now, routinely, all I do is immediately issue this command > 'emerge -uDt @world' and go have a coffee. An AMD 8 core, 32G > workstation does it's thang, leaving me a with just a smile after the > work is complete. No other actions, nadda, ziltch. Immediately, I then > run 'emerge -uDNvp world' (again, and routinely I get:: > > "These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB" > > > Just try it for yourself. It's like clockwork now. Smooth. I have over > 1500 packages installed on a mostly stable but hacked out > /usr/local/portage/ and maybe 10% of the packages, that are much newer, > but portage is sweet, sweet, sweet now. There is inherent magic now, but, > I do not have time to ferret it out. Sure I can dive in, manually, > and I have done this to fix things, but, 'emerge -uDt @world' fixes > things, automagically; dozens of times as I update 3 or 4 times a week.
Please post the output of layman -l > > > > YMMV. --livin the dream, brah, livin the dream..... > hth, > James > > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
