Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-04-11, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> Is it better to us emerge -U or emerge -N >> I always do both except I use the lower case 'u'. I started using >> Gentoo back in 2003. Over the years, I added/changed options to emerge >> until I got a good sane system that works as expected and is stable. My >> command is emerge -auDN world and it has worked for years. > Once upon a time, a little over 20 years ago, I did some studying, and > I searched mailing lists postings for recommendations, and I settled > on > > emerge -auvND > > I've been using that ever since on a handful of machines. I'd have to > spend a few minutes reading the man page to remember the significance > of a couple of the flags, but I note that differs only in verbosity > from Dale's usage. > > -- > Grant
I need to add something. I always forget the default options I have in make.conf. This is the options I put in there. EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=500 --keep-going -v --quiet-build=y -1 --unordered-display --jobs=6 --load-average 8" I added with-bdeps ages ago to correct some issues. After I had to use it a few times to fix issues, I added it to the default. I used to have backtrack set to 100. After a while 100 just didn't allow it to go deep enough. I tried higher settings until I reached 500. I don't recall ever having to increase it manually since. The -1 keeps my world file clean. If I want to add something to the world file, I use the --select y option to bypass it. The others are pretty obvious and are more of a personal preference or based on my CPU etc. I might add, it is rare that emerge can't find a path to do updates. Other than known bugs, it's also rare that I have problems with things not working with software, unless it is me doing something wrong of course. :/ Hope this helps, someone at least. Dale :-) :-)
