On Donnerstag 10 September 2009, Maxim Wexler wrote: > HI group, > > My netbook has only (4+8)G of sketchy SSD + SDHC RAM for everything > and I am determined not to emerge anything I don't really need. > > But now that I'm mobile I have the capability of doing a -uD world > whenever it's required without having to take days of dialup time. > > Question is, when's that? I assume with fewer packages, updating is > not as urgent as on a big desktop with lots of HD space and lots of > apps. > > Is there some sort of rule-of-thumb when it comes to timing or spacing > their updates that members use to keep gentoo happy? > > Maxim >
I do 'it' every morning. I am still tired, eix-sync, when I come back with my tea, I see the updates, emerge -auvD world, ready when the sugar is in the tea. Checking the list. Drinking some of the tea and contemplating the updates, then 'y'. when I am ready to rock, the updates are done. ...
