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From: Michael Crute <mcrute@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:30:05
Message-Id: 558b73fb05092806246b328e59@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow by Holly Bostick
1 On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl> wrote:
2 >
3 > I suppose if you really felt that you wanted to have an emerge of the
4 > new packages done automatically, you could always create a script to run
5 > esync and mail you the output, then run emerge -uD world after esync
6 > completed successfully (doesn't seem much point in using --newuse if
7 > you're not going to be there to look at the output), but I prefer to do
8 > my emerges manually.
9 >
10 I'm not really sure automating your updates like that is a really good idea
11 especially in light of a few new package layouts that break things. Wouldn't
12 that just bite, wake up and, oops the system's broken and I have no idea
13 why.
14 -Mike
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18 Michael E. Crute
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