* Harry Putnam (rea...@newsguy.com) [12.06.09 18:15]: > > I can sync fine... just didn't want to do an update world just now as > my sources are quite new, but still didn't want to get sources too far > ahead of installed packages. >
I think, you did not understand, what a sync does. It updates mostly
ebuilds and not ever any source package.
And ebuilds are just recipes to build software from sources, so this has
no impact on the software installed, as long as you don't want to
rebuild a specific version, which is no longer in the tree. But even for
this case there is the attic.
Gentoo's normal behaviour is frequent change. May you should consider
the buildpkg option or quickpkg to have binary packages for all your
installed software at hand, for quick recovery.
But syncing the portage tree at least weekly, most likely daily, is that
what most Gentoo users do. So there is absolute no problem, especially
if you are using the stable tree...
Sebastian
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