On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 07:32:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > emerge --sync X number of times daily in a cron > > emerge -avuND world deliberately and manually as the sysadmin at your > leisure. > > Two different actions in time.
Assume you sync once a day, and update once a week, the first 6 syncs would be mostly wasted. Yes, your final sync would be smaller. But your machine and the server would have to go through the file-comparison process 7 times, instead of once. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
