Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Official way to do rolling update (Was: Re: Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec)

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:02:28 -0600
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> You are right, it does require prior knowledge and as a user gets that
> knowledge, they likely end up where Alan, Duncan and myself are.  That
> would be emerge -uaDN world.

And from there you can continue; like adding -vt --unordered-display
and the list goes onto get a lot more detail, it can be handy to see
what depends on what such that you don't look at a flat list wondering
where a dependency came from. I haven't looked further at all the more
specific parameters one can pass; but well, surely there's some
objective and/or subjective improvement still possible there.

> I have needed this more than once in the past.  I would run into a
> problem and recompiling the obvious packages didn't correct the
> issue. Doing a emerge -e world would fix the issue.

Usually I debug / troubleshoot it for long enough to avoid that; but
well, yeah, depending on the situation `emerge -e @world` could take
a lot less time. Especially on a new Gentoo install where this might be
more likely to happen as you often change things in the early days...

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