291 config files: how long didn't you update your machine?
Kevin O'Gorman schrieb:
Having carefully backed up my whole root partition, I just embarked on the huge emerge that had built up in just the few days around the new years. I was worried about Xorg, of course -- it was going to be a major pain if that didn't work. In the event, everything seems fine, but there were some oddities, in my opinion. It also seemed to replace much of KDE and a bunch of other things too. 38 steps.
The oddities:
For one thing, emerge first emerged xorg 6.8.0-r3, then downgraded it to xorg 6.7.0-r3, all in the same batch. Anyone know why it does this? I'm running on 6.70 right now, with no noticeable difference from the earlier XFree, so I'm not complaining. It just seems weird. Also very time-consuming.
For another, when it was done, and quite aside from the automatic trivial config merges, there were 291 config file changes that etc-update wanted me to scrutinize. I don't have the attention span for that, so I looked at the 9 that I most nearly know what they do. The rest I just told it to automerge, and I'm hoping for the best. Is it really necessary to have 300 config files changed in a given update? There just seems to be something unfriendly about that.
++ kevin
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