Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:35:25AM -0500, Dale wrote >> Walter Dnes wrote: >>> Total: 377 packages (298 upgrades, 52 new, 2 in new slots, 25 reinstalls), >>> Size of downloads: 1,408,922 KiB >>> >>> ...wish me luck. >>> >> >> Glad to help. I get a lot of help from this list so nice to give back a >> little. ;-) >> >> Happy compiling. Keep the thing cool. > time emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world > > ...gave me... > > * IMPORTANT: 40 config files in '/etc' need updating. > * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS > * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files. > > * IMPORTANT: 4 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > * Use eselect news read to view new items. > > * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with > * emerge --depclean. Refer to `man emerge` for more information. > > real 293m20.427s > user 366m20.734s > sys 71m22.050s > > I also noticed a whole slew of perl packages updating when I ran > "emerge -pv", so I followed up with "perl-cleaner --reallyall", which > went through a bunch of packages. Lesson learned, update the notebook > more often. >
That's one downside to Gentoo, it doesn't like being stale. As you just experienced, not updating Gentoo creates a time consuming and often confusing process to get back up to date. If I were to want to install something that I couldn't keep up to date, update at least once a month, I'd use some other distro for that machine. Going 3 months or more can lead to enough problems but going a year or so is a big problem. Depending on what all has changed, it can even be faster to reinstall than update. If I were advising a new person trying to Gentoo, I'd recommend going no more than a month between updates. If that person can't upgrade at least once every three months, I'd suggest another distro. At some point, it just becomes to much trouble. That's not a knock at the devs either. It's just the way Gentoo is since it follows upstream so closely. In all honesty, way back, it was even harder to upgrade a machine way out of date. The devs who code emerge have made a lot, make that huge, progress in making emerge find ways around blocks and such. Still, regular updates is easier in my opinion than waiting to long. I have to admit tho, if I had a laptop which comes with cooling issues plus being slower than a desktop, I'd likely go to once a month updates unless I could compile on my desktop then move the binaries over to the laptop. Glad you got it going and I could help in some small way. Dale :-) :-) P. S. I've been learning Kicad and even ordered some circuit boards. It's getting dangerous over here. :/
