On 13:22 Tue 08 Feb , Fabian Groffen wrote: > With Gentoo you should update on fairly regular intervals, and have > the time inbetween as short as possible, but 2 or 3 weeks appears to > be fine. I myself have a cronjob that syncs every night, and mails me > the output of emerge -Dupv world. When this list gets too large, it's > typically about time to do some updating.
FWIW, in experience from my past two positions, updates to "critical" systems at least quarterly, and no more than monthly, seem to produce good results that balance effort and stability. (With exceptions for security issues.) -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com
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