Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:27:22
Message-Id: 20120102212558.69181338@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:08:44 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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3 > > It is not permanently broken, that implies it would stop the system
4 > > working. It is merely damaged, and repairable. It may take a little
5 > > effort to repair, but that will help you remember to be more careful
6 > > in future.
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8 > No one has offered up a way to fix it yet, or a downside to the old
9 > behavior.
10
11 Yes they have. Remove anything in the least suspect and emerge -cp. Then
12 emerge -n anything listed that you need.
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14 There was a script floating around that created a new world file that
15 contained all installed packages that were not a dependency of another
16 installed package. It's not a perfect fix, but pretty close.
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18 Found it: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6861484.html
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22 Neil Bothwick
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24 The law of Probability Dispersal decrees that whatever it is that hits
25 the fan will not be evenly distributed.

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