On Friday 13 April 2007 17:46:42 Fabio wrote: > Now I advise people to keep their systems synced at least once a > month, not because their machine necessarily needs to, but because > after much time with no emerging --sync, you'd see your computers > spending one or two days downloading and compiling the updated > packages, and that is really annoying.
Policy says that for a package to be removed from the tree it needs to be in package.mask for 30 days. Therefore if you sync less often than every 30 days you risk that a package you are using gets removed without you ever seeing the masking (and later removal) reason. -- Bo Andresen
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