On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:02:28 -0600 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You are right, it does require prior knowledge and as a user gets that > knowledge, they likely end up where Alan, Duncan and myself are. That > would be emerge -uaDN world. And from there you can continue; like adding -vt --unordered-display and the list goes onto get a lot more detail, it can be handy to see what depends on what such that you don't look at a flat list wondering where a dependency came from. I haven't looked further at all the more specific parameters one can pass; but well, surely there's some objective and/or subjective improvement still possible there. > I have needed this more than once in the past. I would run into a > problem and recompiling the obvious packages didn't correct the > issue. Doing a emerge -e world would fix the issue. Usually I debug / troubleshoot it for long enough to avoid that; but well, yeah, depending on the situation `emerge -e @world` could take a lot less time. Especially on a new Gentoo install where this might be more likely to happen as you often change things in the early days... -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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