Leif B. Kristensen wrote: > 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.
In my case it makes perfect sense. I share kernels and binary packages across my entire Gentoo network at work (about 6 machines currently, mostly servers). Unfortunately, I didn't think ahead when I started using Gentoo, so I didn't change make.conf's default -march=pentium3. So when I put Gentoo on my dual CPU 400mhz PII, I was completely confused when top gave me "Illegal Instruction" crashes and general system stability was extremely poor. Then I remembered -march=pentium3. So how do you automatically recompile 537 binary packages with new make.conf settings? Answer: `emerge -e world` -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net -- [email protected] mailing list
