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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:39:01
Message-Id: yu9sjyx1lii.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:
2
3 > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:14:26 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
4 >
5 >> So is it now an appropriate time for me to run an
6 >>
7 >> emerge -e world
8 >
9 > It shouldn't do any harm.
10 >
11 >> I do not mind taking this machine offline for the few days of the
12 >> emerge.
13 >
14 > There's no need for that, just set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in make.conf. You
15 > may want to run emerge -ef world first to make sure all files you need
16 > are in $DISTDIR.
17
18 thanks,
19 allan

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