On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:22:57PM -0600, Dale wrote: > Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2018-02-27 11:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> A combination of --changed-deps, --with-bdeps=y and --deep is bound to > >> result in plenty of unnecessary re-emerging. > > So, what _is_ the recommended set of emerge flags for regular daily or > > weekly updates (assuming no binary packages)? > > > > > Over the years, I've ended up with this command and options set that > seem to work pretty well for most everything. This is in make.conf: > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=100 --keep-going -v -j5 > --quiet-build=n -1 --unordered-display" > > After I run eix-sync, I then run emerge -uaDN world and give the updates > a looking over, to make sure the USE flags are like I want etc etc. I > started out with fewer options but as issues popped up or options were > added that made things work better, they were added. Some are done in > make.conf to make sure they are the default for every command, unless I > override it on the command line. So far, it has resulted in a fairly > stable system even if I have some arch packages installed, KDE for > example. > > As usual, you may need something different but that has worked for me > and could be a starting point at least. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. On the rare occasion I want to add something to the world file, I > either do it directly or use --select y to override the -1 in > make.conf. That helps keep the world file from getting cluttered up to > no end with things that shouldn't be there. >
I recently took --oneshot out of EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS due to failing to find --select y; now I can add it back in. Thanks for the tip! ~zlg
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