On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:18:13 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> When I say deeper, I mean it will find more packages that may not be > >> found otherwise. > > And -e finds even more - but more is not always better. -U was > > introduced because -N was causing too many packages to be rebuilt > > unnecessarily.
> Before those options came along, I would run emerge -e world to fix > problems. Sometimes revdep-rebuild would catch things but sometimes it > wouldn't. Thing is, since I started using the current options, I have > few problems with package upgrades. Sure, they have a known bug on > occasion but recompiling won't help that. I'm just talking about > problems with one package not matching up with some other package and > recompile fixes it. > > To me, the fact it works so much better tells me I'm doing something > right. Other people may get different results but as long as what I'm > doing works, I don't plan to change anything. -N works, it just creates extra work. If you are happy with that, there's no need to change. -- Neil Bothwick There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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