Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?

[zlg]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:22:57PM -0600, Dale wrote:
> Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > On 2018-02-27 11:02, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> >> A combination of --changed-deps, --with-bdeps=y and --deep is bound to
> >> result in plenty of unnecessary re-emerging.
> > So, what _is_ the recommended set of emerge flags for regular daily or
> > weekly updates (assuming no binary packages)?
> >
>
>
> Over the years, I've ended up with this command and options set that
> seem to work pretty well for most everything.  This is in make.conf:
>
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=100 --keep-going -v -j5
> --quiet-build=n -1 --unordered-display"
>
> After I run eix-sync, I then run emerge -uaDN world and give the updates
> a looking over, to make sure the USE flags are like I want etc etc.  I
> started out with fewer options but as issues popped up or options were
> added that made things work better, they were added.  Some are done in
> make.conf to make sure they are the default for every command, unless I
> override it on the command line.  So far, it has resulted in a fairly
> stable system even if I have some arch packages installed, KDE for
> example. 
>
> As usual, you may need something different but that has worked for me
> and could be a starting point at least. 
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>
> P. S.  On the rare occasion I want to add something to the world file, I
> either do it directly or use --select y to override the -1 in
> make.conf.  That helps keep the world file from getting cluttered up to
> no end with things that shouldn't be there.
>

I recently took --oneshot out of EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS due to failing to
find --select y; now I can add it back in. Thanks for the tip!

~zlg