Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage option "--changed-use" not working?

[Dale]

»Q« wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:34:52 -0500
> "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:23:18PM -0600, ??Q?? wrote
>>
>>> Thanks for the points you've made about how removal of a flag a user
>>> doesn't have enabled could still affect the user.  I think I'll
>>> still use --changed-use routinely and also periodically run an
>>> update with --newuse.
>>
>>   What's the longest that most software on Gentoo goes without an
>> update?  The next update would, by definition, fix any breakage caused
>> by a dropped flag.
>
> That's true, but it won't hurt me to emerge -puNDv world every once in a
> while.  I have an alias for it anyway, and I don't think I could break
> the habit of typing it occasionally.
>
>

I do mine this way.  I sync the tree with eix, run emerge -uvaDN world
then --depclean -a then revdep-rebuild.  Once in a while, I run a emerge
-e world.  I usually do that when KDE upgrades since it doesn't take to
much longer.

I used to just do -u world.  I had issues that would pop up sometimes
that were really strange and recompiling packages it depends on fixed
it.  So, I added -D.  That fixed a good bit.  Then I was always changing
some USE flag so I added the -N since if I changed nothing, it did
nothing.

Thing is, you do what you need to to have the system you want.  Some
update every day.  Some update once a week and some once a month and
then some less often than that.  Thing is, you get to pick that.  I just
like a update to date system but stable too.  I update sometimes twice a
week sometimes once every couple weeks.

This is one of those "it depends" things.  Picks what works for you.

Dale

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