Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:55:47
Message-Id: 20160816135531.6ab4413e@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages by hw
1 On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:13:16 +0200, hw wrote:
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3 > > You're probably always running into problems like this because you
4 > > infrequently update Gentoo.
5 >
6 > Every three months is not infrequently.
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8 It is considered so for Gentoo.
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10 > > If you ran it every day you'd probably only run into issues every
11 > > couple of months, and when you did you'd have it immediately narrowed
12 > > down to a few packages since that is all that has changed.
13 >
14 > Seriously, update every day?
15
16 Why not? If you're running stable, most days there won't be anything to
17 update, but when there is it is only a few packages, making problems less
18 likely to occur and easier to deal with if they do.
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22 Neil Bothwick
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24 We are upping our standards - so up yours.