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"Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> writes: |
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>> --deep is almost never needed. Some people love it and tell everybody to use |
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>> it. Usually people who are version number freaks. But in 90% it is useless to |
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>> harmfull. |
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> Could you be more specific, please? How is it harmful? What happens to |
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> your system when you use --deep? |
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> Why is it that despite --deep being recommended[1] and used (I assume) |
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> by the majority of Gentoo users, I haven't heard of any ill effects of |
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> using --deep? (You are the first and so far the only person to recommend |
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> against it.) |
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Being the thread owner so to speak, I'd like to ask something of you |
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here. The converse of your question. How is it good. |
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Can't speak for Hermman of course but I think he was suggesting that |
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somewhere `Deep' in the dependancies of something things got tangled |
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up and caused something to bread that has bearing on my `slow redraw' |
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problem ending up with a need to revdep-rebuild to find the problems. |
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I still haven't seen what is at the root of my redraw problem and |
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haven't really heard any advice about how to debug it further. |
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I would like to hear both sides of this since you both are obviously |
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quite knowledgale about how gentoo works |
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> I *always* use --deep when upgrading because then I am assured of |
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> getting *all* of the dependencies of packages I am emerging. I am not |
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> aware of *ever* having system problems due to using --deep. How do you |
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> prevent packages from being installed that are missing dependencies? |
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I have been using --deep as a matter of course when upgrading and I |
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can say I have had system problems *absolutely every time* I've |
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upgraded. And (Embarrassing given the sad state of my skill level) |
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but I've been running gentoo for something like 2 or more years . |
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I don't know if the problems I've had are attributable to --deep in |
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any way, but I can say its likey to be at least in part due to ill |
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informed bumbling on my part. |
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The problems haven't always been big ones but there have always been |
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some requiring me to post here for advice. Many were about the |
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tangled web of kde dependancies. |
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How would you recognize that a system problem was or was not |
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attributable to `--deep'? Also isn't emerge supposed to find |
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dependancies as a default behavior? |
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In particular how can we determine what is wrong in my system causing |
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the slow redrawing of windows and slow scrolling. Its getting |
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annoying enough that I'm thinkin about trashing this install and going |
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back to a stage install from snapshots and see if I still get this |
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slow redraw. |
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The revdep-rebuild that Hermman suggested did find problems with gcc |
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that I fixed by re emerging it with USE="-gcj". But apparently this |
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is not related to `slow redraw'. |
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