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On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 13:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Personally I think we're in one of those |
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> unfortunate periods of time where there is a relatively high number of |
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> issues. I'm seeing it on all my machines. It's taking far more of my |
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> time to deal with this than I wish it would. |
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> 1) ntp-update problems at boot time. |
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Hmm, I'm not having any ntp-update problems on my machines. Have you |
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submitted a bug report or searched the bug database? Obviously this |
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isn't happening for everyone so if the right people don't know about it |
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then you can't expect it to get fixed. |
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> 2) emerge -DuN world building lots of packages that are already on the |
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> system but the LoG has apparently changed flags so emerge wants to |
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> rebuild them. |
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But that's what -N does! That's what it's documented to do. RTFM. If you |
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don't want that behavior then don't use -N. Either use --reinstall |
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changed-use or don't use any USE-specific flags. Personally I just let |
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portage re-install as it doesn't really change anything if you haven't |
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changed your use flags. |
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> 3) New and unclear (to me) messages about portage flag overrides |
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> caused by overlays I've been using for a while. |
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These are probably warnings about overlays overriding settings in the |
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regular portage profile. Some overlays do this. It's just a fact of |
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life. Again, if you don't want to deal with it then don't use overlays |
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or at least choose overlays that don't do potentially bad things. It's |
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not the Gentoo devs responsibility if you bring in 3rd-party overlays |
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that change stuff. |
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So with the possible exception of #1, these appear to be "but it hurts |
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when I do that" problems, not issues with Gentoo stability. |
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