Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Sync, emerge -puND world, and WHAM!!! ~100 packages to merge.

[Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu@fuuzetsu.co.uk>]

On 28/03/13 11:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:48:21PM +0400, the guard wrote:
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>> Среда, 27 марта 2013, 18:09 UTC от Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>:
>>> Hi, Gentoo!
> 
>>> Has anybody else seen this?  I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and
>>> got a list of ~100 packages to merge.  About a third of them seem to be
>>> new perl stuff, 13 packages with gnome, and a lot of this and that.
> 
>>> Most worrying is sys-fs/udisks-2.1.0.  Should I be worried about this
>>> (all my other udev-ish stuff is up to date), or will it just work?
> 
>>> But getting such a large update, all at once, seems worrying.  Should I
>>> worry about anything, or just plough ahead with the update?
> 
>>> -- 
>>> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
> 
>> depends on how long it's been since you had the last uodate
> 
> A couple of days at most.  I've never seen such a large update, except
> for when I'd just installed Gentoo.
> 
I recently had ‘emerge -avutND’ throw 713 packages at me after not
updating for a couple of weeks. It took me a few days to get it back to
an updated state but I managed.

~100 packages is not unusual if you don't update for a week or so,
especially if something gets an update that other things depend on at
which point it might remerge all those packages as well.

I wouldn't worry.

-- 
Mateusz K.