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On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> I try to avoid emerge -e world because |
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> 1: It is time consuming. |
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> 2: It may still not work after all that time. |
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> 3: It is too much like the Gentoo equivalent of a reinstall and you |
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> are |
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> none the wiser as to why it fixed something. |
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I actually run emerge -e world on my machines about once a month +/-, |
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mostly to ensure the system can compile itself. So usually for me it's |
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more for finding problems than resolving them, but I guess I'm so used |
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to doing it that it's no big deal. I remember it used to take days, but |
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nowadays if I start it in the evening it's usually done in the morning, |
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or if I kick it off before leaving for work it's usually done before I |
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get home. I also make a habit of doing a full bare-metal restore of one |
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of my machines once a month to make sure my backups are good. So yeah, |
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I have a habit of doing "reinstalls" except I don't really think of them |
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as reinstalls because I (hopefully) get everything back :) |
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-a |
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