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From: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect.
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:21:27
Message-Id: 24597.34685.124634.475848@tux.local
1 Arve,
2
3 On Saturday, 2021-01-30 16:20:42 +0100, you wrote:
4
5 > ...
6 > No, it is not a build dependency, but it is a part of the @system set,
7 > so it will always be included in any @system or @world updates you do.
8 > I would not bother updating it especially.
9
10 Ok. But what if I just do, say
11
12 emerge --ask --changed-deps --changed-use --deep --newuse \
13 --update --with-bdeps=y firefox
14
15 after syncing? Is this, too, guaranteed to always work, even if portage
16 itself is requiring an essential update?
17
18 Sincerely,
19 Rainer

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