On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 09:26:17 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:41:39 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > Once you have unset those variables, try a world update rather than > > > trying to cherry pick when you think needs to be updated. > > > > " emerge -uDNavq world" appears to be working (and new "portage" is > > there). I have 428-packages to emerge so it will take some time. > > > > But I was under impression I need to emerge "portage" before anything > > else. > > If portage needed to be emerged first, portage would do so. That used to > be the approach years ago, when portage updates were more significant.
There's still room for confusion, though. For a long time, an update to portage was no longer flagged as needing prior merging, but recently the warning has come back. How are we to know which is right - you or portage? :) -- Regards, Peter.
