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.

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//Aho