Hi All- I've read the portage documentation at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml?catid=gentoo and I've searched and browsed the gentoo-user mailing list archive, but I have a question that I don't see answered anywhere.
It seems to me that it must be true that sometimes, after a system upgrade done with: emerge -uD system or emerge -uD world I must reboot the computer for the changes to take effect. I could be wrong on this, but it seems reasonable to me to think that I should reboot in certain circumstances. Perhaps after an upgrade to the glibc package or other libraries... not sure. Am I right about this? If so, can someone tell me under exactly what circumstances I should reboot immediately after a system update such as these above? (ie. if glibc gets updated, if you add a new USE flag that requires recompiling certain packages, after an update to the sysvinit package, etc.) I realize of course that if I compile a new kernel and want to use the new kernel then I need to configure the boot manager and reboot with the new kernel, but it seems to me that there would be other circumstances aside from this that would require a reboot after a system update. Thanks for any replies. -Kevin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
