Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:14:26 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> So is it now an appropriate time for me to run an >> >> emerge -e world > > It shouldn't do any harm. > >> I do not mind taking this machine offline for the few days of the >> emerge. > > There's no need for that, just set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in make.conf. You > may want to run emerge -ef world first to make sure all files you need > are in $DISTDIR.
thanks, allan
