From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFDA81382C5 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDD72E0B0E; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5AFAEE0AF8 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:07:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id B73306860C for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:07:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:07:18 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect. Message-ID: <20210130170718.3a58f0b6@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <140f70da-4daf-238d-bb29-f31abcd3a154.ref@verizon.net> <140f70da-4daf-238d-bb29-f31abcd3a154@verizon.net> <2131305.iZASKD2KPV@lenovo.localdomain> <24597.29732.81278.661901@tux.local> <24597.34685.124634.475848@tux.local> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.8 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/Z/M6CPYYjGpNxaO6kBXjtkZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: 53c40036-3b13-4936-8477-751f01174339 X-Archives-Hash: 9df75abbad1319ea7290402240b2a0fa --Sig_/Z/M6CPYYjGpNxaO6kBXjtkZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 17:55:21 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > Ok. But what if I just do, say > > > > emerge --ask --changed-deps --changed-use --deep --newuse \ > > --update --with-bdeps=3Dy firefox > > > > after syncing? Is this, too, guaranteed to always work, even if > > portage itself is requiring an essential update? =20 >=20 > Unless you're years behind on your portage updates, there should be no > chance of getting any problems with this that could be fixed by > upgrading portage. Unless you have a new Firefox ebuild released using a new EAPI version that is only in a later version of portage - an unlikely, but not impossible, scenario. > As long as you do world updates now and then, I > don't think you'd ever have any problems. I stopped updating portage > on its own many years ago, it's been fine. Same here. Most problems with portage are caused by people trying to fix supposed problems with portage :( --=20 Neil Bothwick I'm moving to theory. Everything works there! --Sig_/Z/M6CPYYjGpNxaO6kBXjtkZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAmAVkkYACgkQ92eFu0QS MJiOphAAlrx9R9HkrFVOWj8AimzQxxxzopkCC87IX+fyGXCxVnsQFwIGIJAJp6XV XdQuVrcmM2Jwh5fVo2aEDq6zv6XR4HTvBgme20zUVYymCqEYdOFQRzJrM3UIaobd FWm5mBT4XoCUCH2isltAsaBzSaW2AJAkwirWaieeSfQX8TtYpmd9O9HT4+LpHZqn x+ToNdV0YSaw2ruxgJMXJCpC6hqrL/spt7MG6Fg/nRB7M1mdTG2UknwVtjgIPMkj 3nY1twD+JwejQsrw263UjDVyovUS6fRsbbt20crt8VvEXBY2LdJxsSMr9iHaI2Y1 fggeFCSl2iVgUpd/8vBvRsEnajjyIVV+qW0An1l+WnXYaYk/7ZLllV7ATYBs+xqu I/h1JZfKNNbTOraXHpKsRTcoYJNeGxM6TZDHIwc6o0k5iWEKyGGOLPYCr4Lv+RBS B6MXfUaZUU+uavdYGW1/M5yMeCbaa+IDLHngDdYUZKmMUA1jyD73Fbaij54XtjAu 8QvaI92QSsijrqAM5mcp9Gq18UQHCiNLwNLS+/urO/+K4or4ksziSNo4ZEDc0qr1 26WXNcn/ClZovhHyWZIavd6y8RUoJwyw1Ibj2l7npMPLYDFrNvTlzAd9eD5mXZLZ 4sovzCzoSCCNh0rOBgIiMbegMKXdDLp9unFC9bRiX/sTpLXwdWk= =L+Zg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Z/M6CPYYjGpNxaO6kBXjtkZ--