On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:58:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. > > I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world', > then decide which packages to update & emerge them individually.
I hope you use --oneshot every time or your world file will be a complete mess by now :( > I also have a list of all the pkgs I have installed with dates + deps, > which I keep upto-date by hand as I emerge items. > I've never understood why 'emerge world' is considered standard: > repeatedly, there are appeals for help here resulting from its > shortcomings One or two problems a week against the thousands of people running it each day does not indicate a problem. I'd say that avoiding blockers etc by selectively skipping upgrades is more likely to lead to problems later. -- Neil Bothwick Windows 98, the most installed system in the world, I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself.
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