Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:54:00
Message-Id: 20130927125341.4b01c2a5@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Q on portage's rational to re-emerge packages by Philip Webb
1 On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:18:08 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > I have found sometimes that Portage wants to remerge LO or similar,
4 > but in fact the existing installed version continues to work regardless.
5
6 That's because you aren't using the broken bits. But that's fine as long
7 as it continues to work for you. I prefer to let the re-emerge go ahead,
8 I don't want it to stop working when I really need it and don't have the
9 time to rebuild it.
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13 Neil Bothwick
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15 I'm not anti-social, I'm just not user friendly

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