[gentoo-user] Re: State of emergency is now in effect.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-01-30, Alexey Mishustin <shumkar@×××××××.ru> wrote:
> сб, 30 янв. 2021 г. в 17:59, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@×××××.com>:
>
>> Am I interpreting you correctly  that such a postsync hook is never nec-
>> essary, that is,  that the "portage" package itself is always a built-in
>> build dependency for every other package?
>
> "The recommendation to update portage on its own is in the process of
> being removed" -
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8520875.html#8520875
>
> (despite of it is still displaed after 'emerge --sync')

That's a good thing. IME, about half the times when emerge strongly
recommends an immediate oneshot emerge of portage, emerge then refuses
to do so.

--
Grant