»Q« wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:34:52 -0500 > "Walter Dnes" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:23:18PM -0600, ??Q?? wrote >> >>> Thanks for the points you've made about how removal of a flag a user >>> doesn't have enabled could still affect the user. I think I'll >>> still use --changed-use routinely and also periodically run an >>> update with --newuse. >> >> What's the longest that most software on Gentoo goes without an >> update? The next update would, by definition, fix any breakage caused >> by a dropped flag. > > That's true, but it won't hurt me to emerge -puNDv world every once in a > while. I have an alias for it anyway, and I don't think I could break > the habit of typing it occasionally. > >
I do mine this way. I sync the tree with eix, run emerge -uvaDN world then --depclean -a then revdep-rebuild. Once in a while, I run a emerge -e world. I usually do that when KDE upgrades since it doesn't take to much longer. I used to just do -u world. I had issues that would pop up sometimes that were really strange and recompiling packages it depends on fixed it. So, I added -D. That fixed a good bit. Then I was always changing some USE flag so I added the -N since if I changed nothing, it did nothing. Thing is, you do what you need to to have the system you want. Some update every day. Some update once a week and some once a month and then some less often than that. Thing is, you get to pick that. I just like a update to date system but stable too. I update sometimes twice a week sometimes once every couple weeks. This is one of those "it depends" things. Picks what works for you. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
