On Monday, 14 October 2019 19:45:49 BST Hartmut Figge wrote: > William Hubbs: > >On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 07:24:00PM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > >> Phew. 262 packages will be emerged. Well, that will take some time. > > > >Ouch, it sounds like you haven't updated in a while. > > Mhm, ca. 2 times in a month. Using -q -uDN @world. Earlier today i have > noticed one oddity. After a --depclean a @preserved-rebuild was > demanded. That resulted in an emerge of gst-plugins-base.
You might like to try a cron job like this: @monthly /usr/bin/emerge -upDvU --changed-deps=y @world That runs overnight on the first of the month and emails me a list of packages to be updated. -- Regards, Peter.
