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On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:54:25 -0800, Grant wrote: |
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> Got it. So @preserved-rebuild is meant to be a replacement for |
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> revdep-rebuild |
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No, it is a means of preventing the problems that revdep-rebuild fixes. |
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If revdep-rebuild were a medicine, @preserved-rebuild would be a vaccine. |
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Which you choose to use depends on whether you prefer fixing broken |
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systems to avoiding them. |
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revdep-rebuild is an external program created to deal with a shortcoming |
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in emerge, that shortcoming was the lack of @preserved-rebuild. There may |
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be times when @preserved-rebuild fails, although they are becoming |
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increasingly rare, so revdep-rebuild is still useful as a fallback, but |
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the main reason I run it from my weekly system check script is as a |
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sanity check. It rarely finds anything. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Beware! The end is... <aaarrgh!> |
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