Re: [gentoo-user] How can I update *every* ebuild?

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:17:06 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> What Bruce was saying is this. When you use --ask, you can look at the
>> output of what packages are going to be emerged, what USE flags are
>> enabled/disabled/changed and other information that could make a person
>> change a setting all before anything is done. If emerge is doing to
>> much, to little or some other unwanted thing, you can change it.
>
> I understand that, but it is not relevant to my point. Using -N includes
> packages that do not need emerging. Either you let them emerge or you
> filter them out manually, either way is inefficient. Particularly the
> manual filtering as they will show up again on the next run.
>
> Bruce also posted a chained alias he uses, so having to interrupt the
> process top manually select packages means running the rest of the
> commands manually too. Like Alan says, trust portage to know your system,
> let it make the first decision before you review it with --ask.
>
> The option is there, I find it useful. I really don't care who else uses
> itWhat Bruce was saying is this. When you use --ask, you can look at the
> output of what packages are going to be emerged, what USE flags are
> enabled/disabled/changed and other information that could make a person
> change a setting all before anything is done. If emerge is doing to
> much, to little or some other unwanted thing, you can change it.
> , but I thought I'd mention it in came anyone still using its shotgun
> predecessor found the information useful. I am not trying to persuade
> anyone else to use it and you won't persuade me to stop using it, neither
> is the point of the post.
>
> It's just occurred to me as I was about to hit Send. If you respond to
> emerge --ask with n, it still returns success, so using that in the
> middle of a chin of commands is not much help unless you use Ctrl-C
> instead of n.
>
>

Why do you say that -N will compile packages that don't need it?  If a
USE flags is added, changed or whatever, I want that change to be seen
and the package to be recompiled.  It could very well affect how the
package works or some feature.

I can see the point on the long command tho.  About the longest I get is
eix-sync && emerge -uvaDN world.  That's about it.  I like to type in
anything else that needs to be dealt with.  As you know, I run into
enough problems with upgrades already.  LOL 

Oh, eudev switch went pretty well.  I even found a roach in dracut.  It
seems dracut had a hard dependency on udev itself and not the virtual
udev.  Now dracut is gone.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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