On 2021-01-30, Alexey Mishustin <shum...@shumkar.ru> wrote: > сб, 30 янв. 2021 г. в 17:59, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com>: > >> 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? > > "The recommendation to update portage on its own is in the process of > being removed" - > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8520875.html#8520875 > > (despite of it is still displaed after 'emerge --sync')
That's a good thing. IME, about half the times when emerge strongly recommends an immediate oneshot emerge of portage, emerge then refuses to do so. -- Grant
