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

[Thomas Tuttle]

On April 16 at 06:46 EDT, Alan McKinnon hastily scribbled:
> On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote:
> > On 4/13/07, anhnmncb@×××××.com <anhnmncb@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > hello,
> > >   I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my
> > > hard-disk.
>
> Uninformed idiots who tell you total garbage like that ought to be shot.
> No, they ought to be hung, drawn, quartered and their corpses hung out
> on a stick to be picked clean by crows.

I apologize for butting in, but this is actually possible if you are
using a Flash memory medium, such as a CompactFlash card or a USB pen
drive, for the filesystem containing Portage.  It is true, as you said,
that syncing often will cause no harm to a "normal" hard disk.

> Seriously, I spend half my days on support debunking just this kind of
> twaddle.

...and scaring off users who passed it (probably just because they
misunderstood or misinterpreted something) by replying like this.

Please, be nice.

--Thomas Tuttle