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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Confessional: how I generally use emerge.
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:07:19
Message-Id: 20160318230710.674753d8@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Confessional: how I generally use emerge. by Dale
1 On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:41:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
2
3 > I have to add this. From what I understand about the scripts he is
4 > using, he is blindly letting emerge do updates without checking to see
5 > if the updates fall into line with what he *needs*. If I read it
6 > correctly, any USE flag change will be missed until it hits the fan and
7 > is broken. That would then mean taking a lot of time to go back through
8 > logs and figuring out just when it went wrong and most importantly, what
9 > caused it and how to fix it. Since the change could have happened
10 > several updates ago, that could involve some work and a lot of
11 > rebuilding.
12
13 And deleting the emerge logs as part of that script doesn't make things
14 any easier. Still, some people like a challenge ;-)
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18 Neil Bothwick
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20 Be regular. Eat cron flakes.