On Sat, 14 Mar 2026, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some know, on my old and new rig, I compile my updates in a chroot > environment. Then I copy the binaries over and use the -k option on my > running OS. That way I don't have a crash when one program is updated > and another it depends on is not yet updated. > [...]
I was surprised to read this... is such a process really necessary when emerging package updates? I am pretty new to gentoo, but I assumed that this was something that portage handled somehow already, although I admittedly didn't really look into the details of how. - Dave
