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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:25:04
Message-Id: 20220222142447.375476bb@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge" by Ramon Fischer
1 On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:09:30 +0100, Ramon Fischer wrote:
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3 > Is it a good practise to update @system first?
4 >
5 > I always update @world almost every seven days and I only get into
6 > package conflicts, if I do not update for more than 60 days or so. Last
7 > time was 99 days ago and I had to resolve circular package dependencies
8 > and so forth manually.
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10 Not really, if you update regularly, just doing @world is the way to go.
11 Emerging @system first is recommended only when @world fails to resolve
12 dependencies, which can happen after a long update interval.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but
19 that's not why we do it. Richard Feynman