Re: [gentoo-user] How often -uD world?

[Mark Stapper]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:58:37 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
>> On Donnerstag 10 September 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote:
>>
>>> HI group,
>>>
>>> My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything
>>> and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need.
>>>
>>> But now that I'm mobile I have the capability of doing a -uD world
>>> whenever it's required without having to take days of dialup time.
>>>
>>> Question is, when's that? I assume with fewer packages, updating is
>>> not as urgent as on a big desktop with lots of HD space and lots of
>>> apps.
>>>
>>> Is there some sort of rule-of-thumb when it comes to timing or spacing
>>> their updates that members use to keep gentoo happy?
>>>
>>> Maxim
>>>
>> I do 'it' every morning. I am still tired, eix-sync, when I come back with
>>  my tea, I see the updates, emerge -auvD world, ready when the sugar is in
>>  the tea. Checking the list. Drinking some of the tea and contemplating the
>>  updates, then 'y'. when I am ready to rock, the updates are done.
>>
>
> Same here, except in my case:
>
> s/tea/triple espresso/g
>
> But I doubt the wisdom of updating an SSD netbook on the machine itself:
>
> 1. Wear on the SSD itself with all those compiles
> 2. It's sloooooow
>
> Maybe wait for Neil Bothwick to show up and ask him for the gory details - he
> seems to have gotten it down pat on his Eee.
>
> I know for myself, I made the conscious decision for Gentoo on my desktop and
> notebook but the Aspire One runs Ubuntu Remix for this very reason.
>
>
Two notes:
1. Don't compile of of you SSD! You can use external storage, like a USB
HDD or nfs share to build (put your portage_tmpdir and /usr/portage on)
2. Don't change a winning team! If your kernel run's smoothly with no
weird glutches in drivers, leave it be. Only update if you want new
features.
Just my 2p's worth
Greetz,
Mark