On 03 Jun 2003 20:18:12 -0700 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following on from Chris's question, right now if I do an emerge -Dp > world I get a pretty radical looking list of things that are going to > happen:
It's nothing radical really, just a bunch of programs getting updated. > I'm pretty hesitant to tell the box to do this, but so far the box is > not in a critical role yet, other than just doing email. No reason to hesitate, or if you dont want up to date software and everything works, no reason to upgrade. > This looks like a long process. I'm in no rush. I could start it late > this evening and let it run overnight. Might take rather long, mozilla is pretty big and so are kde things (I think). Others are pretty small progs. > What have people been doing about this? With huge or at least big emerges, I've downloaded the stuff first with: emerge world -uDf and started the emerge when going to bed or work. -- janne "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." - Immanuel Kant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
