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From: hitachi303 <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -DuN @system vs. emerge -DuN @world
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:41:22
Message-Id: 0c1d0a90-6b76-7eda-e81d-2168b4d63316@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -DuN @system vs. emerge -DuN @world by Neil Bothwick
1 Am 21.03.22 um 13:34 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
2 > On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:43:30 +0100, hitachi303 wrote:
3 >
4 >> as far as I understand updating @system first should be safer and
5 >> easier to perform than updating @world directly. It was mention that
6 >> especially after updating the software after a somewhat long period
7 >> this might solve conflicts. I often do experience different and wonder
8 >> what the reason might be.
9 >>
10 >> The example today would work in both ways but @system shows problems
11 >> which @world does not have. Mostly those problems seem to be bigger to
12 >> the point where @system does not work but @world does or manual package
13 >> by package uninstalling and or emerging is required.
14 >
15 > Emerging @world considers the whole dependency tree, so it should give
16 > better results. Emerging @system first is only recommended in cases where
17 > @world fails due to dependency issues, particularly circular dependencies.
18 >
19
20 That is what I learnd but my experience is that @system has often more
21 dependency issues than @world.
22
23 Your signature is always a reason to read your emails even when the
24 subject is not appealing.
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -DuN @system vs. emerge -DuN @world Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>