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Apparently, though unproven, at 17:48 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, Kevin |
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O'Gorman did opine thusly: |
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> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon |
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<alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November 2010, Allan |
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> > |
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> > Gottlieb did opine thusly: |
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> > > > It seems, however, that you're still going down the path of emerge |
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> > > > |
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> > > > -e @world. Why is that? If it's just to be confident that everything |
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> > > > is back to the way it should be then I understand that. I've done it |
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> > > > myself many times in the last 12 years. |
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> > > |
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> > > Yes that is the reason. |
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> > Sounds like the big guns approach, can be valid at times. |
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> > I'm usually the first one to chip in about emerge -e world being stupid |
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> > when |
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> > someone reads the gcc upgrade guide, but sometimes you have a box that |
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> > just will not fix itself despite hours of troubleshooting. In a case |
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> > like this a full remerge often fixes mysterious but actual real |
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> > problems. |
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> I've had pretty much the same thing happen. In my case, 'eix' showed that |
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> I had 0.9.8p and 1.0.0 installed |
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> in two different slots. However the 3 files that belong to 0.9.8 were |
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> missing. Fortunately, I run with --buildpkg |
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> so I had a binary package lying around. Emerging it with -gK restored the |
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> files, and everything was okay. |
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> OTOH, a couple of years ago I did an emerge -e and regretted it. It kept |
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> stopping because something wasn't |
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> configured right, and I had to go through dispatch-conf on everything up to |
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> that point before I could get it to |
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> proceed. Good luck with your "few days". Mine was more like 2 weeks of |
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> stop-and-go. |
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Ah, the joys of source-based distros :-) |
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If you break it, you get to keep all 47,392 pieces! |
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I keep promising to leave gentoo behind and find something less thrilling. |
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Then I use by Ubuntu netbook for a few days and come right back. |
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It's like a heroin junkie needing his fix... |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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