-----Original Message----- From: Philip Webb [mailto:purs...@ca.inter.net] Sent: March 22, 2009 7:38 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?
090322 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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 :( Yes, there's always someone who says that (grin). Of course, it's 2nd nature to check for 'W' or 'S' in my list & if the pkg has neither, make sure to 'emerge -1 <pkgname>'. Anyway, isn't 'world' going to vanish with the new '@' sets ? >> 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 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. No, people run 'emerge world' in the background, miss the messages & then run into nasty trouble for omitting RR or 'etc-update'. That's the spirit of Ubuntu & the rest, not the hands-on Gentoo approach. I run emerge world in the background and still run etc-update when I'm told to. Crontab emails plus portage's --quiet flag are awesome. Speaking of that, going to run that now.
