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|    J.O. Aho to Gene Poole    |
|    Re: Keeping gentoo up-to-date -- gentoo     |
|    22 Jan 08 21:33:39    |
      From: user@example.net              Gene Poole wrote:              > Yeah, I understand about the etc-update thing, but is there any reason       > why the "world" option would drag stuff in once the system is to my       > liking? As it is now, if I run "emerge -Du world" (or system) I get       > nothing. It's all up to date and has all the features I currently       > need/want.              You never know when a new version of a package will have new dependencies or       changes on default USE flags.              At the same time you may miss important information that is displayed during       the build, like that you need to rebuild some packages, so that they won't       stop working.              --               //Aho              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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