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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?
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On Tue, Dec 04 2012, Pandu Poluan wrote:

> On Dec 5, 2012 7:34 AM, "Grant" <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> My unattended daily system maintenance procedure is like this:
>>
>> layman -S
>> emerge --sync
>> emerge -pvDuN world
>> emerge -pv --depclean
>> eclean -p distfiles
>> eclean -p packages
>>
>> And then attended like this:
>>
>> emerge -DuN world
>> revdep-rebuild
>> etc-update
>> elogv
>> emerge --depclean
>> eclean distfiles
>> eclean packages
>>
>> Am I missing any good stuff?
>>
>> - Grant
>
> There's an incantation that makes emerge download the source files but
> don't actually emerge them, yet. Will save a lot of time during attended
> sessions if your Internet connection is kind of not fast.
>
> Can someone help me refresh my mind?
>
> Rgds,
> --

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