Re: Making a partition larger without affecting my OS.

On Sat, 14 Mar 2026, Dale wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> As some know, on my old and new rig, I compile my updates in a chroot
> environment.  Then I copy the binaries over and use the -k option on my
> running OS.  That way I don't have a crash when one program is updated
> and another it depends on is not yet updated. 
> [...]

I was surprised to read this... is such a process really necessary when
emerging package updates?

I am pretty new to gentoo, but I assumed that this was something that
portage handled somehow already, although I admittedly didn't really
look into the details of how.

- Dave