Hi,
Portage User Guide requires an
emerge -u system
after each
emerge rsync.
An
emerge -pu system
shows about _15_ packages: Well, baselayout, bash, fileutils,... -
these are quite understandable (no objections;-). Then vim, vim-core
- I don't use vim seriously, yet (just nano, mc[edit] to tweak
config files; kate under KDE), but let it be (part of class
"system"). Then some packages whose function I don't know, most of
them sporting "util" as part of their name;->
I'm not a Linux expert (not a newbie either) and can't tell, which
upgrades are necessary and which ones are just nice to have and
could be postponed.
But the _fat surprise_ is the new release of _XFree86_ (4.3.0).
Would the installed release 4.2.x[1] really fail under the new
baselayout? If I knew a compelling reason for upgrading XFree86, and
had known it before rsync-ing, I wouldn't have written this posting.
(BTW, the currently installed release was forced on me the same way,
and I didn't like it, then.). An upgraded X throws about 20 config
files at me, and I still can't get used to rc-update's sdiff-stuff.
My question is: Does emerge -u system upgrade only the necessary
minimum? (to keep the system running), or does it more? Will there,
in the future, be more control and less surprise for the user?
Since I have only 1 PC (P3/1GHz) and share it between Win2k &
Gentoo, endless compilations are a problem for me.
Best regards,
-Heribert
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Heribert Slama
Muttenz, Switzerland
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