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From: thelma@×××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Its ground hog day... how to escape the syndrome?
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:24:04
Message-Id: 58B83917.1070909@sys-concept.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Its ground hog day... how to escape the syndrome? by Andrew Savchenko
1 On 03/02/2017 05:07 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:44:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> On 02/03/2017 06:33, Harry Putnam wrote:
4 >>> Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host
5 >>> Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram
6 >>>
7 >>> I've seen a few other mentions of the phenomena I'm about to describe.
8 >>> It is not clear to me why something like this would happen. Or what is
9 >>> to be done to prevent it.
10 >>>
11 >>> After going thru install and bulding of X based lxde desktop gentoo
12 >>> OS, I'm at the stage where I would do another emerge world followed by
13 >>> --depclean or something similar.
14 >>>
15 >>> Decided to take the @world in the two available bites; @system then
16 >>> @world
17 >>>
18 >>> My cmdline was `emerge -vaDt @system'
19 >>
20 >> Add -u to the options, it activates update behaviour
21 >>
22 >> Without it, emerge takes you literally at your word and emerges
23 >> everything in the system set.
24 >
25 > Also add -N, otherwise USE flags changes will be ignored if no
26 > update or rebuild, and add --with-bdeps y if you don't want to
27 > miss updates for packages pulled an build-only deps, so use
28 > `-DNuavt --with-bdeps y'. "vt" here is optional and affects only
29 > on-screen output.
30 >
31 >
32 > Best regards,
33 > Andrew Savchenko
34
35 Adding -q option is nice (you don't need to watch the code scrolling by
36 on the screen).
37 -uDNavq
38
39 --
40 Thelma