Tom Wijsman wrote:
> 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.

The -v option is already in my make.conf file for portage but I do type it in out of habit sometimes.  I do sometimes add -t if I think it will help.  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.   My point still remains, emerge -uaDN world has given me the most stable system so far.  Removing any of those options results in issues and I end up going back to the command I should have used to begin with.


>
>
>> 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...
>

When I run into a issue and post on -user and no one has a fix, I assume that I'm not going to find a fix on my own either.  Duncan, Alan, Neil and others are MUCH more experienced than I am on the code part.  So, if I need something fixed, emerge -e world may be the only option.  Speed may not matter since anything else could still leave me with a not so stable issue.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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