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On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 23:36:17 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: |
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> Emerge won't update a single goddammned package on my system. |
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> My number theory code finished a segment of work, (after a month), and |
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> it's time to reboot the system to propagate updates to nvidia drivers |
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> and such, uptime = 81 days. |
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This isn't Windows, you don't need to reboot to reload the graphics |
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drivers. |
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> I thought the hell emerge put me through last time would cover me for |
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> the next six months... =( |
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> Emerge seems to want to pretend it is possible to update packages |
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> without breaking anything. It's not. That's why there's revdep-rebuild. |
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> It is causing much much much more grief by refusing to do it's goddamned |
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> motherfucking job than it would be by giving revdep-rebulid a chance to |
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> do it's job. |
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Based on the amount of useful information provided, I suspect this is a |
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PICNIC error. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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I'm Pink, Therefore I'm Spam |
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