On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > > Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of > 'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which > have changed, run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is > recommended, then individually 'emerge -pv <pkg>' & -- if all looks well > -- 'emerge <pkg>'. Yes, it takes a bit longer for my weekly update session > (tomorrow Sat), but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to > chaos > with all the extra frantic labor which would result.
which f*cks up world and is a very bad idea. Really, emmerging every single package? 'world' is useless for you and cleaning unused deps a nightmare. Congratulation, you crippled your system. The easy way to avoid problems are BINPKGs. Use it and a downgrade in case of problems only takes seconds.
