Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 06:30:47 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> -U: if a package doesn't need to be updated on your system today, >>> it'll be left until it does. >>> >>> -N: if any USE flag at all has changed in a package, it'll be >>> recompiled, whether it needs to be on your system or not. >>> >> >> When I say deeper, I mean it will find more packages that may not be >> found otherwise. > And -e finds even more - but more is not always better. -U was introduced > because -N was causing too many packages to be rebuilt unnecessarily. > >
Before those options came along, I would run emerge -e world to fix problems. Sometimes revdep-rebuild would catch things but sometimes it wouldn't. Thing is, since I started using the current options, I have few problems with package upgrades. Sure, they have a known bug on occasion but recompiling won't help that. I'm just talking about problems with one package not matching up with some other package and recompile fixes it. To me, the fact it works so much better tells me I'm doing something right. Other people may get different results but as long as what I'm doing works, I don't plan to change anything. Dale :-) :-)
