I originally did that to see the difference between 'emerge system' and 'emerge world', since system packages are supposed to only be the ones necessary for the operation of the system.
I have a lot of boxes that I manage, so I can't always afford the compile time/downtime on all of them, so I mostly just 'emerge system' on those boxes. Then I look at the 'emerge world' output to see if I really need to update the boxes with those packages, since they are mostly version bumps and may not be as critical. Matt Ian P. Christian wrote: > On Thursday 15 September 2005 08:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>maybe i'm wrong but doens't "emerge -pv world" include "emerge -pv >>system" ??? >>so you just need to "emerge world" >>and bye the way you can use "emerge --sync -q" so you got only erros >>emailed. > > > I was curious as to why that was done too. Eitherway, doing an emerge world > will still leave out of date, possibly insecure packages on the system, so I > wouldn't advise relying on that. > -- [email protected] mailing list
