So anyway, it was like, 18:44 CET Jan 22 2008, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
J.O. Aho was all like, "Dude,
> Gene Poole wrote:

[..]

>> emerge --sync
>> emerge -Du world
>
> I wouldn't use the -D, as you will be upgrading more packages than
> you need and you get a higher risk of breaking another program.

I would, and do. I don't quite see the "higher risk", rather the
opposite. If a dependancy of something in my world file is updated, I
want that update too, not just the thing I've explicitly merged.

An 'emerge --depclean' will indicate if you have orphaned packages
left around, and running revdep-rebuild as well will turn up broken
packages afterwards.

Putting "--ask" in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS might be a handy thing too.

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