-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED! > Read again!
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 says: > Since security updates also happen in packages you have not explicitly > installed on your system (but that are pulled in as dependencies of > other programs), it is recommended to run this command once in a > while. Funny, I can quite clearly see the word "recommended". > > You can catch the security updates by being on the gentoo-announce mailing > list. No need for --deep. > Not every security update gets a GLSA on gentoo-announce. And then there are the many non-security bugfixes in every new release of a program. So if you just want to keep your system up-to-date you should use --deep. I am not using Gentoo as long as you do, but in a good two years on several machines I haven't had problems that I could trace back to the usage of --deep. Sure, you get your part of ABI breakages, but hey, that's the price you have to pay for using a source-based distro. And you usually get a warning in form of an einfo... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFElAtW6q4f+IV6B/wRAnByAJ4rRXMpx/iShQWNmLRoOPxqkuBK/ACdFSIz 17IT5up7F/cR3o5vLcPYnZk= =t4ih -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
