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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:52:09 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
>
>>> I'd have thought you needed to emerge -e world if you really want to
>>> be protected.  
>> Yea, maybe. I read the man page on emptytree. I get it actually replaces
>> by a "reinstall".   Does this do more than if I just reboot after
>>
>> emerge @system @world and then reboot?  
>>
>> I'd be curious to know exactly what reinstall does that is not
>> covered by just starting up a given code again? 
>>
>> Is it that it forces a reinstall and stop/starts the binary without
>> rebooting?   
>>
>> Rebooting catches *everything* even better than --emptytree ?
> --emptytree has nothing to do with rebooting. It simply forces emerge to
> rebuild everything in @world and their dependencies. Once you have done
> that, you will have daemons still running the old code, which you could
> fix with a reboot, or you could run checkrestart and restart only the
> affected programs.
>
> After an emerge -e @world, a reboot is probably best, another reason to
> avoid the unnecessary step of emerge -e @world in the first place.
>
>

After I do a major upgrade or --emptytree, I switch to boot runlevel,
check with checkrestart and restart whatever it reports needs it. 
Generally, switching to boot runlevel catches most everything.

Yea, rebooting may be faster but I hate rebooting all the time.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-)