From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-92180-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1LlJ0o-0002ta-BU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:26:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DA03E04C7; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:26:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C71AE04C7 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:26:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A0B8B31E706 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:26:27 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:26:17 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? Message-ID: <20090322082617.01de615d@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090322065857.GA4834@ca.inter.net> References: <200903211917.56523.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> <20090322065857.GA4834@ca.inter.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs22 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/WXoaLaWIb0Y=xCA=vbZIApW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 9f622454-d232-4f29-a981-fd6c26edbfe8 X-Archives-Hash: 088cc8022ed55cf36e3abda8f298fc45 --Sig_/WXoaLaWIb0Y=xCA=vbZIApW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:58:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Now I'm doing an emerge -u world. =20 >=20 > I never do that: I always do 'emerge -Dup world', > then decide which packages to update & emerge them individually. I hope you use --oneshot every time or your world file will be a complete mess by now :( > I also have a list of all the pkgs I have installed with dates + deps, > which I keep upto-date by hand as I emerge items. > I've never understood why 'emerge world' is considered standard: > repeatedly, there are appeals for help here resulting from its > shortcomings One or two problems a week against the thousands of people running it each day does not indicate a problem. I'd say that avoiding blockers etc by selectively skipping upgrades is more likely to lead to problems later. --=20 Neil Bothwick Windows 98, the most installed system in the world, I know, I've done it 5 or 6 times myself. --Sig_/WXoaLaWIb0Y=xCA=vbZIApW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknF9i4ACgkQum4al0N1GQNlEwCeI+1sD/1WoQQm5i0vAzUPN36K KTUAn0NIfuzqMBOvyn6DqtB5ppIZqUUu =X3je -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/WXoaLaWIb0Y=xCA=vbZIApW--