Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge util-linx; util-linux and sysvinit block eachother.
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 22:44:53
Message-Id: 20140609234431.5af9b173@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge util-linx; util-linux and sysvinit block eachother. by Alan Mackenzie
1 On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 21:04:30 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
2
3 > > You are making it artificially complicated by doing it piecewise.
4 > > Whenever you try to update only part of your tree, emerge cannot do
5 > > changes anywhere else, which means that other stuff can block your
6 > > intended changes.
7 >
8 > I tried to break it down into manageable pieces when doing the whole
9 > world at once gave too many errors.
10
11 Except that by breaking it down it becomes less manageable for portage.
12 You are asking portage to manage dependencies with one hand tied behindit
13 back.
14
15 If emerge -u @world is too long a list, update @system first, which will
16 take care of sysvinit and util-linux.
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19 --
20 Neil Bothwick
21
22 Always remember to pillage before you burn.

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