On 01/26/2014 08:55:35 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Again, I think I'm just lucky.
I don't think it's luck. A portage system likes to be updated very often (best: each day).I have made the experience that updating a machine which hasn't been updated
for a long time (say one year), is just pain.Normally, in those cases, I prefer to remove everything from / and /usr, copy an actively maintained machine to it
and do the necessary customizations for that machine. Helmut