Re: (Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

[Michael Mol]

Michael Mol wrote:
> Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
>> On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>> On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable
>>>> through the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to
>>>> uninstall anything to do that level of investigation.
>>>> revdep-rebuild -I is also useful, although more historically than
>>>> now.
>>>>
>>
>>> This was essentially Michal Mol's suggestion, and I gave an
>>> example where it would remove something important.
>>
>>
>>>> Really, the proposal to 'fix --update' doesn't address really
>>>> knowing what your system is running and why. Get to the root of
>>>> that and the --update thing becomes the non-issue that many of us
>>>> think it is.
>>>>
>>
>>> This would be a suggestion to travel back in time and document
>>> something that I have no way of knowing now.
>>
>> You could create your own overlay with "meta"-ebuilds, e. g.
>> system-maintenance, customer1, customer2.
>> Inside the ebuilds you define depends on the packages the customer wants.
>> Doing so you could wipe everything except the "meta"-ebuilds from world.
>> When a customer quits you can unmerge his or her "meta"-ebuild and
>> depclean.
>> If you add everything needed to the respective "meta"-ebuild, you'll
>> always be on the safe side.
>>
>>
>
> Getting EnigMail set up on a Seamonkey/Win7 box, and Enigmail is
> complaining that your signature is unverified. I don't know/understand
> PGP/GPG all that well, but I think this is something you're supposed to
> be able to fix on your end. If that's not the case, let me know, and
> I'll get it fixed on my end. :)
>
> gpg command line and output:
> C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe
> gpg: Signature made 01/03/12 09:05:56 using RSA key ID 8D16461C
> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found

Doh...that was supposed to go directly to Hinnerk. "Reply to sender
only" my hind leg...