On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 18:49, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 02/07/2024 10:17, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > IMO, only bring out the hammer if you're having a problem. > > And when you run emerge --update, does that sometimes find nothing to > upgrade? No reason why it *should* find something. > > There's a couple of commands like that that sometimes find nothing to do > - emerge --depclean is another. > > But if you set off all these "do something if there's something needing > doing" jobs, you'll always have a clean, up-to-date system. > > And yes it would be nice if there was a page somewhere in the handbook > or similar that said "this is how to keep your system up-to-date, just > run these commands every week or so".
Sure, sometimes there are no updates, even on my unstable system it happens. And a world update tells you every time that you should run --depclean to make sure your system is consistent. And upgrading certain packages tells you to run other commands after updating to make sure your system is consistent. Including perl with perl-cleaner. If you do everything portage tells you to do, you'll have perl-cleaner mostly be a pointless waste of time, and if you never run it except when asked to, you might be forced to now and then to fix a problem. Your chosen solution to this 'dilemma' probably comes down to how confident you are when coming up to portage conflicts, no shame either way :) Cheers, Arve
