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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Samstag 05 Dezember 2009, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> Also, I never do a bald 'emerge world'. I look thro' the output of |
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>> 'eix-sync', write -- with a pencil+paper -- a list of installed pkgs which |
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>> have changed, run 'emerge -Dup world' to see what order of emerging is |
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>> recommended, then individually 'emerge -pv <pkg>' & -- if all looks well |
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>> -- 'emerge <pkg>'. Yes, it takes a bit longer for my weekly update session |
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>> (tomorrow Sat), but I don't risk the nightmare of reducing my system to |
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>> chaos |
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>> with all the extra frantic labor which would result. |
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> which f*cks up world and is a very bad idea. Really, emmerging every single |
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> package? 'world' is useless for you and cleaning unused deps a nightmare. |
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> Congratulation, you crippled your system. |
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> The easy way to avoid problems are BINPKGs. Use it and a downgrade in case of |
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> problems only takes seconds. |
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Good catch Volker. I didn't notice that part. He needs to become very |
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familiar with the -1 option but even that is not good in every case. If |
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it is a package that needs to be in world, then that option shouldn't be |
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used either otherwise a --depclean would remove it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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