How do you all maintain your system?

[shoebill_j]

Me personally i do a sync and a world update every 2 days then carefully do a depclean each time. This approach has been making Gentoo easier in my experience.

Maybe we can share some knowledge!

[fjeldse]

I do a `emerge --sync` followed by `emerge -auvDN --with-bdeps=y @world` at least once a week, but usually more. Also, I switched to the Git repository and it seems to run a lot faster, but that's just my subjective experience.

[ian.au]

Every 2 days would become a tiresome chore, ignoring the unnecessary power usage for my use case.

Stable Desktops I update every 2 weeks; over the years that's worked out to be the sweet spot for me. I noticed that dev's tend to commit at or just after the weekend, so I usually sync to my local portage host on a Tuesday pm and run the update on the host, then set up the other machines to run overnight once completed. That saves having half an update on a production machine if there's been an error.

Unstable machines or machines with a large number of mixed ~ packages I do weekly but at present I don't have any of those.

I've seen people go a lot longer between updates, with varying degrees of success

[eeckwrk99]

I used to update daily when I was using ~arch system-wide. Now that I switched to stable, I'm thinking about updating weekly instead, as there are less updates.

[pa4wdh]

Well ... not exactly a horror story, which is a big compliment on portage's side:
I update my systems every 3 to 4 months, so that comes down to 4 times a year. The only exception is when there are high-profile vulnerabilities i really need to fix. They are all running stable (arm and amd64), i'm doing this for more than 10 years now and never run into big problems. Some installs are really simple (like a basic install and ntpd) others are more complex (like a mailserver, a LAMP setup or my desktop/laptop). I assume that staying with stable solves ensures the smooth updates most of the time.
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[Spanik]

I try to do it about every week (or 2). Depends a bit on available time and what I'm doing with the pc at the time. If I'm doing something like audio or photo related I sometimes let go more time between updates because it would be to much lost time in the flow of things if something breaks. My incantations are like:

[myga]

[CaptainBlood]

I update on a ¼ day basis.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support
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[myga]

I update every 24-72 hrs. Here is my lazy tiny script:

[NichtDerHans]

[Spanik]

[CaptainBlood]

Talking daily basis sync, likely suspended when time consuming update set arises.

3600 packages installed here.

½ CPU threads are dedicated to emerge.

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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USE="-* ..." in /etc/portage/make.conf here, i.e. a countermeasure to portage implicit braces, belt & diaper paradigm
LT: "I've been doing a passable imitation of the Fontana di Trevi, except my medium is mucus. Sooo much mucus. "

[figueroa]

I update daily. "emerge --sync" runs from crontab about 0600 and I get the output of "emerge -uDUp @world" in my my morning email. Sometime during the day I'll pull the trigger on "emerge -uDUa @world" and then let it run in the background. I don't usually have to do anything else. I will occasionally run "emerge -ca" as the spirit moves me to do so.
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[Goverp]

Once a week, I (manually) sync with the portage squashfs snapshot. I have a chroot which builds binpkgs (emerge --update --deep --changed-use @world) for a make.conf that specifies -march=... that suits both my laptop and desktop machines, then emerge at first level on both machines against said binpkgs.
Always take care to read any eselect news items, config file changes, and run (if possible) emerge --depclean.
I build my own kernels directly from the stable git tree on kernel.org, as and when there's a new stable. I have "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.10.11" in package.provided (and occasionally update the release number, it doesn't seem to matter).
I have "--ask" in PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in make.conf
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