Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > I saw the news item about 4.8.3-SSP, which I think is a good idea, but > > how deeply, if at all, do I need to rebuild packages ? > You don't need to rebuild, although there are known problems with having > both 4.7 and 4.8 installed, and having 4.7 be the active one (or any > case where an older version is the active one.) Hmmmmm. > You should be able to just switch to 4.8 without rebuilding anything. > That's what I did. Of course it can't hurt to rebuild everything, but > you can schedule that for later (like an overnight rebuild of <at> world > with --keep-going). It's not critical to do it immediately. OK, so I use updated (sync/compile) using 4.7.3. I did have to rebuild webkit-gtk, as todd suggested. Now I'm going to switch over to 4.8.3 and rebuild @sytem and @world. These are fun and not big of a deal with my FX8350 and 32g or ram..... thx for the advise, everyone, James