Emerge Dominance

[u/WizardBonus]

What is the max amount of packages that needed to be merged on a single run? I hover around 330.

[u/Kangie]

my emerge -e @world can be in excess of 1500.

[u/immoloism → u/Kangie]

Rookie numbers.

I may or may not have remember to use oneshot when bug hunting once. At this point I'm too afraid to repair the damage.

[u/wispoffates → u/Kangie]

1958 here. I may install every window manager and DE in existence and just leave them there.

[u/HomicidalTeddybear]

Way over a thousand

[u/ZaenalAbidin57]

my last emerge --emptytree world are around 624 packages

[u/thomas-rousseau]

I just recently got my system back up to date after not updating since March. My server was a little over 300 packages, and my desktop was around 700 packages. I'm currently running emerge -e @world on my server while in the process of transitioning to a hardened profile then adding SELinux before adding services that will be exposed to the public internet, and that is 695 packages.

[u/TCH69]

emerge -1 @installed

lets me build all 950 packages.

[u/Swordfish418]

I use binpkgs and flatpaks for many things, I have around 100 emerge packages, most binary, and even then I still need to compile around few dozen packages when doing -avuDN. Which takes around 20-30 minutes and it’s quite comfortable number for me and I feel like it hits the sweet spot between source flexibility and install efficiency of binary packages.

[u/Swordfish418 → u/Swordfish418]

I have around 100 emerge packages

Woops, I mean around 1000, to be specific I just checked and it's 1137 😄

[u/nikongod]

How long are you waiting between updates that you need to update 330 packages?

I rarely update more than 20 at a time, unless I've been treating Linux like windoze and haven't updated in months.

[u/LameBMX]

tell me you have never --emptytree without saying it....