What happens if I don't execute emptytree?

Carlosk465 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 May 2022 Posts: 78

I updated the gento profile to 23, but I have not executed the last instruction:

figueroa · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 3:30 am Post subject:

If it wasn't important for the continued proper running of your computer, the developers wouldn't have agreed that it's a necessary step. Much has already been posted in the Portage forum about this. If your Gentoo installation isn't valuable to you, feel free to continue to ignore the instructions.
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e8root · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Feb 2024 Posts: 94

It is probably safer to delay profile the change until you can allocate enough time to perform that emerge.
If computer speed is an issue you can try binary packages until you can rebuild them.
It is probably not very critical to rebuild biggest packages like chromium and libreoffice, etc. right away so these can be excluded from emerge and updated when necessary.

The configuration in question will definitely be experimental... which by itself doesn't say anything will break or won't work. Only means you might get different issues.
If you want to maximize chances of hitting rare bugs not doing this emerge is the way forward. Though who knows, maybe doing it like that won't yeld any bugs or even will avoid serious issues. You never know with these things and I doubt extensive testing was done to arrive at the recommendation do do emerge --emptytree @world...
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