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On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable through |
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> the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to uninstall anything |
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> to do that level of investigation. revdep-rebuild -I is also useful, |
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> although more historically than now. |
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This was essentially Michal Mol's suggestion, and I gave an example |
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where it would remove something important. |
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> Really, the proposal to 'fix --update' doesn't address really knowing |
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> what your system is running and why. Get to the root of that and the |
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> --update thing becomes the non-issue that many of us think it is. |
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This would be a suggestion to travel back in time and document something |
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that I have no way of knowing now. |
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