On Saturday 26 February 2005 23:41, Walter Dnes wrote: > 1) I notice some occasional mention of people continuing to use their > systems while emerge is running. Intuitively, this seems like driving > your car while mechanics are working on it. I shut down every X session > and every text console except one root session running the actual > emerge. Is this unnecessary? Are there any booby-traps to watch for if > I want to use my system while "emerge --ask --deep --update --world" is > running? > > 2) After a while I've found the messages (at the end of the emerge > session) about config files, useless and rather annoying. I now execute > > rm `find /etc -iname '._cfg????_*'` > > whenever such a message shows up. No problems... yet. Is it a good > idea, or have I just been lucky?
I was tempting to do the same until I discovered etc-update. Just use it! -- Jamás olvidaré a la primera mujer que me ame. --------------------------------------------- Francisco Santiago Capel Torres [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
