Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote:

>
> Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of
>  'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which
>  have changed, run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is
>  recommended, then individually 'emerge -pv <pkg>' & -- if all looks well
>  -- 'emerge <pkg>'. Yes, it takes a bit longer for my weekly update session
>  (tomorrow Sat), but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to
>  chaos
> with all the extra frantic labor which would result.

which f*cks up world and is a very bad idea. Really, emmerging every single 
package? 'world' is useless for you and cleaning unused deps a nightmare.

Congratulation, you crippled your system.

The easy way to avoid problems are BINPKGs. Use it and a downgrade in case of 
problems only takes seconds.