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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:53:08
Message-Id: 43007464.40204@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:02:46 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>oh yeah... and don't wait too long with the updates.. less than once
6 >>every few days and the problems will pile up... from my humble
7 >>experience, it is much less troublesome, to do daily updates, than
8 >>weekly ones ;)
9 >
10 >
11 > Start every day with a nice strong brew and emerge world -uavDN :)
12 >
13 >
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15 I used to do it every day like that. Lately I've reduced the frequency to 3 or 4 days which seems to work pretty well. Actually, since I've reduced the frequency, it seems like I've encountered far fewer broken builds.
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17 It's a probability game. More syncs and updates means more ebuilds built and more chances for things to go wrong. Plus, you end up building every little revision that comes out, which is wasteful.
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19 Zac
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