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091205 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of |
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>> 'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which |
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>> have changed, run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is |
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>> recommended, then individually 'emerge -pv <pkg>' & -- if all looks well |
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>> -- 'emerge <pkg>'. Yes, it takes a bit longer for my weekly update session |
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>> (tomorrow Sat), but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to |
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>> chaos with all the extra frantic labor which would result. |
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> which f*cks up world and is a very bad idea. |
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> Really, emerging every single package? |
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> 'world' is useless for you and cleaning unused deps a nightmare. |
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Please read what I said & hopefully think briefly before responding. |
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If the pkg is already in 'world', it's 'emerge <pkg>'; |
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if not -- the more frequent case -- , it's 'emerge -1 <pkg>'. |
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That keeps everything in order (yes, you have to watch what you do). |
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> The easy way to avoid problems are BINPKGs. |
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> Use it and a downgrade in case of problems only takes seconds. |
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Yes, I do have 'FEATURES="buildsyspkg"' in 'make.conf', of course, |
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but I've never needed to make use of those emergency files. |
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My general point is that Gentoo is about managing your own system |
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rather than relying on someone out there to do it for you; |
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IMO binary distros are closer to using M$ or Apple than they are to Gentoo |
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& relying on 'emerge world' is closer to binary distros than to true Gentoo. |
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'world' is a less important part of Gentoo than many users believe: |
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IIRC it was imitated from FreeBSD by Gentoo's founder in the early days. |
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My recommendation is to put a bit more time into regular updates |
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& thereby reduce the chance that you'll need to fix a major breakdown; |
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also as said, if you want to do real testing, use a dedicated system |
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on another partition or (safest) another machine altogether. |
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Otherwise, thanks for the thoughtful comments by others. |
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