Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Your system might be broken and/or insecure due to serious patch-2.6 bug

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote:
>
>   
>> Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of
>>  'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which
>>  have changed, run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is
>>  recommended, then individually 'emerge -pv <pkg>' & -- if all looks well
>>  -- 'emerge <pkg>'. Yes, it takes a bit longer for my weekly update session
>>  (tomorrow Sat), but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to
>>  chaos
>> with all the extra frantic labor which would result.
>>     
>
> which f*cks up world and is a very bad idea. Really, emmerging every single 
> package? 'world' is useless for you and cleaning unused deps a nightmare.
>
> Congratulation, you crippled your system.
>
> The easy way to avoid problems are BINPKGs. Use it and a downgrade in case of 
> problems only takes seconds.
>   

Good catch Volker.  I didn't notice that part.  He needs to become very 
familiar with the -1 option but even that is not good in every case.  If 
it is a package that needs to be in world, then that option shouldn't be 
used either otherwise a --depclean would remove it. 

Dale

:-)  :-)