Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?

· Neil Bothwick <neildigimed.co.uk>:

> Not in the way that causes the problems, of -5ing
everything. When i used
> etc-update, I wuld go through the list, accepting some
changes and
> rejecting others, then -5 the remainder, which were
often example configs.

That's what I do as well.

> That's not the same as -5ing everything, which is what
I was referring to
> and the easy way to toast /etc/fstab.

Ah, okay, then I did not understand you completely right.

Alexander Skwar
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:41:22 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> > That's not the same as -5ing everything, which is
what I was
> > referring to and the easy way to toast /etc/fstab.
 
> 
> Ah, okay, then I did not understand you completely
right.

Probably because I didn't explain myself very clearly first
time :(


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Neil Bothwick

Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups.