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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> On Saturday 22 October 2005 02:37, Rafael Fernández López wrote: |
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>>Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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>>>On Friday 21 October 2005 21:11, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: |
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>>>>My hole linux box has crashed !!!! |
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>>>>I made a system update yesterday with emerge -Du world.... |
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>>>> |
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>>>>it update my apache, mantis, nagios, bind, mysql..... today my hole |
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>>>>system is against me.... |
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>>>>I think in reinstall the full system .... has any one got a better |
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>>>>idea, my backups are unavailable now .... |
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>>> |
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>>>what do you mean 'crashed'? |
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>>> |
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>>>does revdep-rebuilt still works? |
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>>> |
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>>>but at least now you know why you should not use --deep. |
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>>Deep is almost imprescindible when upgrading. You have to upgrade |
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>>dependencies too, or maybe your new and fresh app is built onto old |
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>>libraries that can make it crash, or just going slower. |
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> --deep is totally superflous. |
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> When something needs the latest libs, it will pull them in anyway. |
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> So there is no need to install the latest version. Nobody said, that the |
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> latest are always the fastest too. |
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> When nothing needs the latest stuff, why change the dependency of maybe |
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> douzends of apps, only to have the latest version? |
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> A lot of times, this breaks stuff. Or does thinks make slower. Or make some |
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> apps crashy&instabil. |
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> Some apps even need a very small spectrum of versions - any change in the |
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> libs, and boom, you have a memory-leaking crashy hog. Or at least something |
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> that does not work like it should (like xine or mplayer, when you update |
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> ffmpeg and transcode behind their backs). |
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> --deep does not solve problems, it generates them. |
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Sorry, but I don't agree with this. I use -deep every day and have yet |
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to have any of |
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these so-called problems Mr. Volker is espousing. I have mplayer and |
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xine and they both work fine. |
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I wonder how you came to this conclusion-was it direct experience, or |
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just banal thinking? |
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Regards, |
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Edward A Mihalow Jr |
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Gentoo! Linux |
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Registered Linux User#225662 |
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New Orleans,LA |
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