On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:58:37 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 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.
Same here, except in my case: s/tea/triple espresso/g But I doubt the wisdom of updating an SSD netbook on the machine itself: 1. Wear on the SSD itself with all those compiles 2. It's sloooooow Maybe wait for Neil Bothwick to show up and ask him for the gory details - he seems to have gotten it down pat on his Eee. I know for myself, I made the conscious decision for Gentoo on my desktop and notebook but the Aspire One runs Ubuntu Remix for this very reason. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
