Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

[Michael Crute <mcrute@gmail.com>]

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On 9/28/05, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
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> I suppose if you really felt that you wanted to have an emerge of the
> new packages done automatically, you could always create a script to run
> esync and mail you the output, then run emerge -uD world after esync
> completed successfully (doesn't seem much point in using --newuse if
> you're not going to be there to look at the output), but I prefer to do
> my emerges manually.
>
I'm not really sure automating your updates like that is a really good idea
especially in light of a few new package layouts that break things. Wouldn't
that just bite, wake up and, oops the system's broken and I have no idea
why.
 -Mike

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