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On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:55:55 -0600, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > Yes, meaningless; update world means the packages on YOUR machine, |
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> > matching YOUR arch and dependencies requires by YOUR use flags have |
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> > been changed. No one can relate to that without knowing all those |
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> > settings, or a simple list of the packages updated with "genlop |
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> > --list --date yesterday" |
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> Your repeating it ever louder does not make it so. |
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Correct, it was already so. |
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> update world |
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> conveys a major update of the entire OS, |
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No it doesn't. It updates whatever has been updated since you last ran |
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it. This depends on the arch and USE flags you have, which packages |
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you have installed and when you last did it. it could update two packages |
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or two hundred. The point is, the statement gives no indication of which |
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packages you have upgraded, so it is of no real help in diagnosing your |
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problem. |
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> then follows a very specific |
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> error that I hoped someone would be able to identify. |
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Which I did, and proposed a solution. It didn't work because I assumed |
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you were using the split KDE ebuilds, a list of the packages you had |
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updated would have shown otherwise and enabled me to give the answer I |
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gave later in my first reply. |
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When asking for help, it is difficult to give too much information but |
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all to easy to give too little. |
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> Your continued insistance on |
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> this appears to be more about opinion than fact. |
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No, it's about asking for the information needed to make a diagnosis. |
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> > You're running the monolithic KDE ebuilds, so re-emerge kdebase. |
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> > Incidentally, this is one of the situations where the split ebuilds |
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> > really pay off, as you'd only have to recompile Konqueror rather than |
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> > all the core KDE programs. |
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> Thanks, I'll be doing that. |
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See, once you gave details about specific packages involved, it |
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was easier to provide advice. Remote diagnosis usually involves some |
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guessing as to the correct answer, don't make us guess the question too. |
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You seem to have taken this as a personal attack, it was not. If you want |
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people to be able to help you, give them what they need. My first |
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response was simply some advice on one way doing this that "update world" |
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does not achieve. You were not the first to fall into this trap; you will |
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not be the last, but my discussing it I hope it may happen less often. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I'd prefer the non-smoking lifeboat, please. |
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