On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:33:56PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > I've seen a few other mentions of the phenomena I'm about to describe. > It is not clear to me why something like this would happen. Or what is > to be done to prevent it. > > After going thru install and bulding of X based lxde desktop gentoo > OS, I'm at the stage where I would do another emerge world followed by > --depclean or something similar. > > Decided to take the @world in the two available bites; @system then > @world > > My cmdline was `emerge -vaDt @system' > > Showed 44 pkgs only 2 were updates and 42 were reinstalls.
If you want to rebuild everything, including dependancies, try emerge -e @world You'll find out how many packages you have installed and how fast your system is. <G> -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
