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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:17:53
Message-Id: 20160919211736.43e7082a@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict by Philip Webb
1 On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:01:39 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > > I'm surprised you needed to jump through such hoops.
4 > > I updated 2 stable systems to perl 5.22 last week
5 > > and emerge @world took care of all blockers,
6 > > although I did need to run perl-cleaner afterwards.
7 >
8 > I never run 'emerge world' without '-p' :
9 > it's the lazy way to manage a Gentoo system & asks for trouble.
10
11 What makes you think I didn't use -p? I have a cron job that runs emerge
12 -pXXX @world after syncing and mails me the output, and I always use -a
13 when running emerge in a shell.
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15 The point is that, whether I used -p, -a or neither, portage handled it
16 all for me.
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19 --
20 Neil Bothwick
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22 Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

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