Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

[Abraham Marín Pérez]

Remy Blank escribió:
> Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
>
>> That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things
>> right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think?
>>
>
> The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In
> your case, it will be when you decide to update LIB (because you want to
> have the new features, or because another package needs the new
> version). Between the LIB update and the APP recompilation, APP will be
> broken.
>
> Even worse, if you don't know that the LIB update will break APP, you
> might not notice immediately that APP is broken, or you might only get
> some strange results from APP. That's where revdep-rebuild steps in: it
> can tell you that APP is broken, and what's needed to fix it. So you're
> better off running it consistently after your regular updates.
>
>

I'm not talking about not needing revdep-rebuild nor saying non-deep 
updates would prevent breaking dependencies, I just said that non-deep 
updates will *reduce* the amount of packages that need to be rebuilt. I 
systematically run revdep-rebuild after every update world (in fact, 
it's all in a script which performs update world, revdep-rebuild and 
update-eix), but I'd rather have it reinstalling 2 packages than 20. 
That's all.

Abraham

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