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Not sure how far behind he was w/ the baselayout. It may have been |
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removed from portage, and him masking it blocked. although he says he |
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had recently installed it. but yes, it sounds as though something else |
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went wrong. |
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On Jan 27, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> deface wrote: |
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>> It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated |
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>> as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any |
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>> baselayout, not just the version you are stating. |
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>> |
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>> *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, |
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>> it is |
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>> *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as `revdep-rebuild` |
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>> (from |
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>> *** WARNING *** app-portage/gentoolkit) in order to detect such |
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>> breakage. |
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>> *** WARNING *** |
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>> *** WARNING *** Also study the list of packages to be cleaned for |
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>> any |
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>> obvious |
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>> *** WARNING *** mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set |
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>> will always |
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>> *** WARNING *** be kept. They can be manually added to this set |
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>> with |
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>> *** WARNING *** `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are |
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>> listed in |
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>> *** WARNING *** package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by |
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>> *** WARNING *** depclean, even if they are part of the world set. |
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>> *** WARNING *** |
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>> *** WARNING *** As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any |
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>> packages |
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>> *** WARNING *** unless *all* required dependencies have been |
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>> resolved. As a |
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>> *** WARNING *** consequence, it is often necessary to run |
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>> *** WARNING *** `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to |
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>> depclean. |
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>> |
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>> Plenty of warning there. Not recommended to --depclean. UNLESS |
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>> absolutely necessary. |
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>> |
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>> deface |
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>> |
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>> |
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>> |
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> |
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> |
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> Isn't baselayout part of system? Wouldn't --depclean leave that |
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> installed? Something sounds . . . fishy. I run --depclean and I |
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> don't |
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> recall it ever removing something in system. |
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> |
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> That said, always add a -p or -a to that thing. It can boo boo and |
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> remove something you need if you are not careful. I removed a kde |
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> thing |
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> once. No GUI for a bit. |
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> |
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> Dale |
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> |
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> :-) :-) |
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> -- |
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