On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 15:58, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since I've installed Gentoo more than a year back I have a small script > in "/etc/portage/postsync.d/" which just contains > > #! /bin/bash > emerge --ask --changed-deps --changed-use --deep --newuse --oneshot \ > --update --with-bdeps=y sys-apps/portage > > I'm not sure where I got that from, I thought it was in the Gentoo Hand- > book, but looking there just now I didn't find anything like that. May- > be I invented that myself. > > Am I interpreting you correctly that such a postsync hook is never nec- > essary, that is, that the "portage" package itself is always a built-in > build dependency for every other package?
No, it is not a build dependency, but it is a part of the @system set, so it will always be included in any @system or @world updates you do. I would not bother updating it especially. Regards, Arve
