On 4/22/20 3:15 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > Why would I need to emerge world? Portage knows the full list of > packages that depend on openssl, transitively. > > Unless you're generalizing to say that (almost) everything depends on > openssl, I suppose. > > Also, didn't the handbook, at one point, say not to sync portage more > than once a day? So why would package installations happen 20 times per > day?
It's not that everything depends on OpenSSL, but that everything depends on /something/. If everything is statically linked, then any update of any package sets off a chain reaction of other packages that trigger rebuilds of other packages that trigger rebuilds of... If you only sync once a day, then yes, you'll only have to rebuild once a day. I sync considerably more than that though, and besides, it takes me about a week to emerge -e @world.
