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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 01:46:09 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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>>--deep is dangerous! |
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>>I have stopped using --deep ages ago. |
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>>As an example: |
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>>there is an --deep update for libFOO.1 to libFOO.1.1. |
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>>You make this update which only shows up with --deep |
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>>Suddenly all apps, linking to libFOO.1 are dead or crashy or acting |
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>>weired. |
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>Dropping --deep won't stop that happening, only delay it. sooner or |
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>later, one of your packages will need libFOO.1.1 and it will be |
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>installed. --deep doesn't cause this problem, it only affects the timing. |
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Yep. |
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>>That happened to me several times. I see NO reason to use deep. Ever. |
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>How about this instance? The OP wants all packages affected by the |
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>profile change to be updated. Without --deep, that won't happen. |
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Yep here too. |
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>>Reduced the occurences where I have to use revdep-rebuilt to almost nil |
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>>(except that expat tragedy some weeks ago. Man that sucked ;) ). |
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>I do a deep update every day, on various architectures. I run |
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>revdep-rebuild -p occasionally, just to make sure everything is |
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>consistent, it rarely picks up anything. |
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I do the same thing. That is one reason it is there, to fix things like |
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>--deep is an option, and I understand why you choose not to use it, but |
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>on this occasion it is necessary to accomplish the OP's goal. |
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Yep. Sometimes you have to do it just because you got to. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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