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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:33:31
Message-Id: 20061227112458.04b992a8@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume by Nicholas Hockey
1 On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:32:05 -0500, Nicholas Hockey wrote:
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3 > > > During this my cron did "emerge --sync".
4 > >
5 > > I would recommend not having cron sync your tree for this very
6 > > reason...
7
8 I have a cron script that syncs each morning, but it checks that emerge
9 is not running first, to avoid just this sort of problem.
10
11 > i agree, i think automagicly syncing the tree is a bad idea..... look at
12 > it this way.... Do you have your windows machines set to automgicly
13 > chack, and install updates ?
14
15 syncing the tree is not installing anything, all it does is update the
16 list of what is available. Any comparison with Windows is irrelevant
17 anyway, Linux is not Windows.
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21 Neil Bothwick
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23 Daisy Duke shorts would never go out of fashion.

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