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On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 00:42, Martin Schlemmer wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:41, Michael Cummings wrote: |
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> > OK, so a few weeks I thumbed through a thread on here about emerge clean |
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> > being automatic was bad, didn't pay it nearly enough heed. I just had a |
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> > box do an autoclean and clean out an older version of supersed - which, |
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> > campers, cleans out a few necessary sed pieces, which, further makes it |
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> > impossible to emerge (since you kind of need sed for all of our patch as |
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> > you go ebuilds to work...and oddly enough, you need a sed for sed to |
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> > install....). |
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> > |
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> > So, to all ye who scoffed last time...look out... |
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> > |
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> > now to go see what a make.conf looks like these days to see if i can |
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> > disable that nastiness |
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> > |
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> |
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> To be honest, it does more good than bad. |
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> Problem though, is that in some rare cases, |
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> especially when you have a old installation |
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> of Gentoo, it seems to unmerge the new |
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> SLOT'ed version, and not the old unsloted |
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> version. |
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> |
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> I had this once, so remerged few things, fixed |
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> others with binary packages, and then checked |
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> the clean bit for the next while on this box, and it |
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> never happned again after all the packages have |
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> been SLOT'ed ... |
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> -- |
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> Martin Schlemmer |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer |
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> Cape Town, South Africa |
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> |
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I had one nightmare emerge clean once where it broke my entire GNOME |
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installation by the cleaning of one image library boy that was a |
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headache to fix lol. |
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Phil Brault |
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IT Specialist |
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