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