Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Friday 13 April 2007 17:46:42 Fabio wrote:
> Now I advise people to keep their systems synced at least once a
> month, not because their machine necessarily needs to, but because
> after much time with no emerging --sync, you'd see your computers
> spending one or two days downloading and compiling the updated
> packages, and that is really annoying.

Policy says that for a package to be removed from the tree it needs to be in 
package.mask for 30 days. Therefore if you sync less often than every 30 days 
you risk that a package you are using gets removed without you ever seeing 
the masking (and later removal) reason.

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Bo Andresen