On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:41:28 -0500, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I notice some occasional mention of people continuing to use their > systems while emerge is running. Intuitively, this seems like driving > your car while mechanics are working on it. I shut down every X session > and every text console except one root session running the actual > emerge. Is this unnecessary? Are there any booby-traps to watch for if > I want to use my system while "emerge --ask --deep --update --world" is > running?
I don't know about everybody else, but I *always* leave all my stuff running. EVEN programs that are getting updated (Gaim, for example). I have not yet run into any trouble. > > 2) After a while I've found the messages (at the end of the emerge > session) about config files, useless and rather annoying. I now execute > > rm `find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*'` > > whenever such a message shows up. No problems... yet. Is it a good > idea, or have I just been lucky? > Err... That's the config file protection. Don't do that; instead, run etc-update, and go through the steps of merging the updated config files with yours. It will automatically remove the .cfg????_* files. In essence, when you remove those files, you're removing any updated or changed config files (so if some package totally changed its config, it would cease function). You're very lucky indeed. > -- > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will > eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, > and has a lower TCO, than linux. > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- "Microsoft is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds -- [email protected] mailing list
