Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Miles Malone wrote:
> Personally I just like to see what I'm getting myself into before I
> start doing an upgrade or recompile on all of chromium, firefox,
> qt-webkit, gtk-webkit, qt-webengine, libreoffice, and electron all at
> once :p
> To quote the meme, this little manouver's going to take us 51 years
>
>

That's true for me too.  I sometimes do my updates in a chroot and then
install binaries on my main install when it is done.  It's also a good
idea to check the USE flag changes as well.  Sometimes a new USE flag is
added or one that used to default to enabled is now defaulting to
disabled or vice versa.  If you see the change, it gives you a chance to
edit the correct config file to get the result you want.  Before -a came
along, everyone did a -p which meant removing the -p and running again
to do a update.  The -a gives you a chance to look and then proceed if
all looks right without having to run emerge again.  Sometimes it can
take a while for emerge to process what gets done. 

It's rare, very rare, that I run a emerge command without -a.  I always
check what will be done first. 

Dale

:-)  :-)