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On 2019-01-24 21:59, Michael Jones wrote: |
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>> You really can't run Gentoo safely for very long without paying |
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> close attention to what you are doing - with both installs and |
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> upgrades. |
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> I don't know that this is true. I've had the same set of use flags |
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> configured on all of my Gentoo computers for 5-ish years now, and I've |
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> only very rarely messed with them. For the most part, running |
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> "eix-sync && emerge --update --newuse --deep @world" once a week has |
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> allowed me to have unattended upgrades for many months at a time, only |
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> needing to adjust one or two things every several months. Needing to |
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> tweak something is my exception, not my rule. |
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+1. That's a core point to me. An update once a week and adjusting USE |
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flags (down) to the _real_ requirements makes multiple Gentoo |
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installations long term stable. |
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> Happy compiling :-) |
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