Miles Malone wrote: > Personally I just like to see what I'm getting myself into before I > start doing an upgrade or recompile on all of chromium, firefox, > qt-webkit, gtk-webkit, qt-webengine, libreoffice, and electron all at > once :p > To quote the meme, this little manouver's going to take us 51 years > >
That's true for me too. I sometimes do my updates in a chroot and then install binaries on my main install when it is done. It's also a good idea to check the USE flag changes as well. Sometimes a new USE flag is added or one that used to default to enabled is now defaulting to disabled or vice versa. If you see the change, it gives you a chance to edit the correct config file to get the result you want. Before -a came along, everyone did a -p which meant removing the -p and running again to do a update. The -a gives you a chance to look and then proceed if all looks right without having to run emerge again. Sometimes it can take a while for emerge to process what gets done. It's rare, very rare, that I run a emerge command without -a. I always check what will be done first. Dale :-) :-)
