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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:50:20
Message-Id: 1595041.NUA0JmbFgS@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it by Neil Bothwick
1 On Monday 14 September 2015 21:41:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:56:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against
4 > > five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google
5 > > didn't help.
6 >
7 > It's not a real problem, but emaint has a fix mode, see the man page.
8
9 Actually, the man page doesn't mention -f; you have to run emaint --help to
10 find it. This is the first such case I've come across.
11
12 Now that I've run emaint -f movebin and emaint -f moveinst, eix-test-obsolete
13 takes a fraction of the time it used to. I'm now trying to decide whether to
14 be suspicious or relieved. ;)
15
16 --
17 Rgds
18 Peter

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