On Thursday 10 January 2008, b.n. wrote: > Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > > The expat upgrade was less than a year ago for stable systems. > > Sorry if hijacking the thread, but: it's a long time I have > expat-1.9.6 and, even if 2.0.1 is in portage, emerge -av world > doesn't tell me to upgrade (I guess emerge -Dav would, but why should > I?). Should I do nonetheless, or can I wait?
I find emerge -uND world every so often is a good idea, as updates are then incremental and I can deal with problems one at a time instead of lots all at once. I don't know of any good reason why you *should* upgrade to expat-2.0.1 right now, other than simply staying up to date. Be prepared to become good friends with revdep-rebuild when you *do* do it, the upgrade caused huge numbers of broken linkages to libexpat.so.0 alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
