On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:04:16PM -0800, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Munat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How often should I emerge sync? I 'emerge --sync' in my daily cron. For me, that's about right. It keeps things fresh without being obsessive. I remember reading (somewhere or another) that Gentoo admins were getting annoyed at certain individuals who sync anywhere between several dozen and a few hundred times a day. > How often should I update portage? Whenever there's an update available. If you have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~ARCH", you may want to be a bit selective. You should *definitely* have the most recent stable version installed. > ..."update ALL of [my] configuration files". That just means you need to run 'etc-update' when you're done to see if you need to work anything in. That little informational message is a bit less than informational.
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