Michael, On Saturday, 2021-01-30 10:48:20 +0000, you wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 January 2021 09:37:57 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > > ... > > I mean I always update my portage first thing after sync, because that's > > what you do, RIIIIIGHT???? > > Not RIIIIIGHT. > > I let portage decide when it needs to update itself, after it has decided > which of its dependencies it may need to update first. Since I've installed Gentoo more than a year back I have a small script in "/etc/portage/postsync.d/" which just contains #! /bin/bash emerge --ask --changed-deps --changed-use --deep --newuse --oneshot \ --update --with-bdeps=y sys-apps/portage I'm not sure where I got that from, I thought it was in the Gentoo Hand- book, but looking there just now I didn't find anything like that. May- be I invented that myself. Am I interpreting you correctly that such a postsync hook is never nec- essary, that is, that the "portage" package itself is always a built-in build dependency for every other package? Sincerely, Rainer