From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GSgkN-0000zx-7b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:15:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8RLE1Ra022072; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:14:01 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8RL8bcV005087 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:08:48 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22ECE64956 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:45:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.57 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.57 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.029, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RHFNQDqcR+8m for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:45:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E483964944 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:45:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GSgH3-00059q-6B for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:44:57 +0200 Received: from mue-88-130-68-092.dsl.tropolys.de ([88.130.68.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:44:57 +0200 Received: from listen by mue-88-130-68-092.dsl.tropolys.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:44:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''? Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:44:40 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?LsK3Lg==?= Message-ID: <1271860.LIEfnhPM4e@m-id.message-center.info> References: <1159366910.4746.3.camel@localhost> <20060927165049.GA29674@princeton.edu> <1159375700.4619.4.camel@localhost> <20060927183153.2b0782d0@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <1159380274.4632.31.camel@localhost> <20060927211301.48c491a3@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mue-88-130-68-092.dsl.tropolys.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k8RLE1Rp022072 X-Archives-Salt: e82005b7-20a6-4284-b9ea-1c6589c07b8e X-Archives-Hash: 29e13f502658dfbb6105c32e0aaaf1c1 =C2=B7 Neil Bothwick : > If you don't understand exactly what the -5 option in etc-update will d= o, > don't use it. If you do understand, you probably won't use it anyway. Uhm, I've got to disagree. I use -5 quite often. I have a look at the list of files and if I *KNOW* that I did not touch those files, I'm very happy "-5'ing" etc-update, so to say. So, yes, if you do understand, you probably will use it. Alexander Skwar --=20 See, these two penguins walked into a bar, which was really stupid, 'caus= e the second one should have seen it. --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list