On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 08:41:56 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote:

> > What makes you think I didn't use -p? I have a cron job that runs
> > emerge -pXXX @world after syncing and mails me the output, and I
> > always use -a when running emerge in a shell.
> 
> You could also try porticron... ;-)

I could but I've been running this script on several machines for many
years and it does just what I want and has evolved along with portage. I
may take a look at porticron to see if there's anything else I want but
didn't know it ;-)


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Neil Bothwick

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but
  that's not why we do it.                            Richard Feynman