Re: Making a partition larger without affecting my OS.

On Sun, 15 Mar 2026, at 19:50, Dave Sizer wrote:
> 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.

Absolutely not, I've never needed something like this through 20 years of using gentoo. But gentoo gives you a base system that can easily handle this kind of thing if you feel like you need it, or just want to try. The portage tools are quite flexible.

Regards,
Arve