Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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. > > Two notes: 1. Don't compile of of you SSD! You can use external storage, like a USB HDD or nfs share to build (put your portage_tmpdir and /usr/portage on) 2. Don't change a winning team! If your kernel run's smoothly with no weird glutches in drivers, leave it be. Only update if you want new features. Just my 2p's worth Greetz, Mark
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