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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:20:02
Message-Id: 200808302219.38226.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python by Stroller
1 On Saturday 30 August 2008 16:59:02 Stroller wrote:
2 > but when I  
3 > had the libexpat.so.0 error the only thing that worked (having  
4 > followed a number of different advices posted here) was to rebuild  
5 > EVERY outdated package on my system - a total numbering in the region  
6 > of 250. I wouldn't have imagined I had so many packages installed,  
7 > never mind those "missed" by my regular updates.
8
9 Missed this bit in my earlier reply :-)
10
11 That number of packages sounds about right, given the amount of time that has
12 passed since the original expat update, and the amount of changes in the tree
13 since. It was a huge disruption because so many apps use expat. Lucky for us,
14 such things are actually quite rare.
15
16 In retrospect, it would probably have been quicker if you went the long way
17 round:
18
19 emerge -e world
20
21 --
22 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -1 `eix -Iu --only-names` & removing old version of Python Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>