Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

[anhnmncb]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:30:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> That's one way of doing it, but I believe it will be slower in the long
> run. You have to load the page, read it, and decide is anything of
> interest is new. If so, you then have to emerge --sync anyway, so why
> not just do it reasonably often anyway? And if you use eix and run
> eix-sync instead of emerge --sync, then you also get a nice display of
> all changes to the tree as soon as the the sync is done.
>
> It is true that portage is a bit slow. If you are brave you can try
> paludis (it's in the portage tree) as a replacement for portage - it's
> claimed to be much faster. But, once again, it's relative: a large
> update will still take many times as long to compile and install as
> what it took portage to calculate what needs updating.
>
> Or are you actually saying that the unpack/build/install cycle takes
> much longer than installing an rpm or a deb? That can't be helped,
> that's how compilation works.
Thanks very much, alan.
The infomation you gave is very helpful, so I know maybe emerge --sync
is one of best and reliable way to update, maybe it has some shortage,
but I think that's a gentoo's way, I'm in gentoo's world :-)
>
> p.s. please don't top post
I'm a novice, thank you, now I know the mailing list's rule.

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