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





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