On Tuesday 22 February 2005 06:07, Aaron Walker wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > The Gentoo developers and package maintainers really do a great job > > of making Gentoo work. > > > > Thanks! > > Thanks for the thanks! Sometimes users forget we volunteer to do > this stuff, so it's nice to see these kind of mails every once in a > while ;)
While I certainly agree with Mark in what a remarkably great job the Gentoo developer's community are doing, I'm a little uncertain about the meaning of running emerge -e. Okay, it's nice to have the opportunity of doing so, but I can't help the feeling that you could accomplish exactly the same with a normal, incremental emerge over time. The other alternative is of course if you have done something really radical with your USE flags, you may run an emerge -avuD --newuse world, as I have done a couple of times. But I can't, for the life of me, see the reason to run a full reemerge of everything unless something is seriously broken. In which case I rather do a complete reinstall, -- God forbid. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
