You only upgrade the packages you have installed. I generally do "emerge rsync && emerge -up world" once or twice a fortnight and unless something like Ooo or KDE is upgraded it often will complete everything within half an hour.
Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 10:33 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gentoo (was Re: OpenBSD) Yes but to stay bleeding edge don't you have to compile each time you download a new package?? I install the latest version of cooker each day. With Gentoo, doesn't that mean I'd have to comipile a lot of packages each day?? Mandrake does the compiling for me with Cooker yes?? Cheers Jason Carl Cerecke wrote: > Jason wrote: > >> Yes but you are forgetting the compile time!!!! > > > That's the point. After you've done it once, you *can* > forget about the compile time. But the performance > benefits continue every time you use the program. > > Cheers, > Carl. > > >
