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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:26:30
Message-Id: 20090322082617.01de615d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? by Philip Webb
1 On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:58:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > > Now I'm doing an emerge -u world.
4 >
5 > I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world',
6 > then decide which packages to update & emerge them individually.
7
8 I hope you use --oneshot every time or your world file will be a complete
9 mess by now :(
10
11 > I also have a list of all the pkgs I have installed with dates + deps,
12 > which I keep upto-date by hand as I emerge items.
13 > I've never understood why 'emerge world' is considered standard:
14 > repeatedly, there are appeals for help here resulting from its
15 > shortcomings
16
17 One or two problems a week against the thousands of people running it each
18 day does not indicate a problem. I'd say that avoiding blockers etc by
19 selectively skipping upgrades is more likely to lead to problems later.
20
21
22 --
23 Neil Bothwick
24
25 Windows 98, the most installed system in the world, I know, I've done it
26 5 or 6 times myself.

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