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From: "Håkon Alstadheim" <hakon@×××××××××××××××.no>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.
Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 08:28:59
Message-Id: 574AA83F.1000502@alstadheim.priv.no
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin. by Gregory Woodbury
1 Den 29. mai 2016 03:17, skrev Gregory Woodbury:
2 >
3 > WOW!
4 >
5 > Alan just wants to start it and walk away, as if Gentoo was a binary
6 > distribution
7 > that handles it all upstream. He doesn't want to take the time to
8 > review what
9 > emerge is proposing and see if changes are needed first.
10 >
11 It IS actually possible to do that, at least for non-critical systems.
12 Just make sure to mail yourself with the emerge output, so you can fix
13 things before the next automatic run.
14
15 The point being that you don't have to sit and watch while emerge works.
16 You can have the output of any blocks or failures waiting for you in
17 your inbox at your convenience.
18
19 For this to work in a timely fashion you need to stay on stable packages
20 as much as possible, and also keep other customizations to a minimum,
21 e.g. don't use --autounmask-write.

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