On Sun, 15 Mar 2026, at 19:50, Dave Sizer wrote: > 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.
Absolutely not, I've never needed something like this through 20 years of using gentoo. But gentoo gives you a base system that can easily handle this kind of thing if you feel like you need it, or just want to try. The portage tools are quite flexible. Regards, Arve
