lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:19:26PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> If you only sync once a day, then yes, you'll only have to rebuild once >> a day. I sync considerably more than that though, and besides, it takes >> me about a week to emerge -e @world. > Just interesting, why you need to sync every day? > And why you need emerge -e, if you can use emerge -auND? >
Might be because Michael is a Gentoo developer. They have to sync a lot as they make changes to the tree. The two commands do different things. Using emerge -e calculates rebuilding every package while emerge -auDN only looks for certain updates. Each can be useful even if not allowed to complete. Dale :-) :-)
