Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect.

[Arve Barsnes]

On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 15:58, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@×××××.com> wrote:
> Since I've installed Gentoo more than a year back  I have a small script
> in "/etc/portage/postsync.d/" which just contains
>
>    #! /bin/bash
>    emerge --ask --changed-deps --changed-use --deep --newuse --oneshot \
>           --update --with-bdeps=y sys-apps/portage
>
> I'm not sure where I got that from, I thought it was in the Gentoo Hand-
> book, but looking there just now I didn't find anything like that.  May-
> be I invented that myself.
>
> Am I interpreting you correctly  that such a postsync hook is never nec-
> essary, that is,  that the "portage" package itself is always a built-in
> build dependency for every other package?

No, it is not a build dependency, but it is a part of the @system set,
so it will always be included in any @system or @world updates you do.
I would not bother updating it especially.

Regards,
Arve