Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 21:43:50
Message-Id: 20160416224338.2884e5e0@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge by Alan Grimes
1 On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:26:34 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
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3 > but on my desktop, all of these problems would go away by the end of the
4 > update list and 95% of the time, revdep-rebuild wouldn't have anything
5 > to do.
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7 That would mean that one in twenty updates would break your system,
8 requiring revdep-rebuild to fix it. You'd have to be pretty dumb to
9 prefer a system that allows breakage and require repair after the fact
10 over one that does its best to avoid such breakage in the first place.
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14 Neil Bothwick
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16 "Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared...