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Dale writes: |
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> deface wrote: |
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> > It sounds like the mistake was on your hand. baselayout isn't udated |
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> > as often, unless you are ~**. the missing files are from any |
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> > baselayout, not just the version you are stating. |
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> > *** WARNING *** Depclean may break link level dependencies. Thus, |
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> > it is *** WARNING *** recommended to use a tool such as |
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> > `revdep-rebuild` (from *** WARNING *** app-portage/gentoolkit) in |
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> > order to detect such breakage. |
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> > Plenty of warning there. Not recommended to --depclean. UNLESS |
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> > absolutely necessary. |
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Well, it is not absolutely necessary, but I like to have a clean system |
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without a heap of old packages I do not need any more. And when I have |
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two baselayouts installed, I think it is best to remove the old one. |
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> Isn't baselayout part of system? Wouldn't --depclean leave that |
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> installed? Something sounds . . . fishy. I run --depclean and I don't |
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> recall it ever removing something in system. |
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> That said, always add a -p or -a to that thing. It can boo boo and |
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> remove something you need if you are not careful. I removed a kde |
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> thing once. No GUI for a bit. |
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Of course I did that. emerge --depclean showed me (along many other |
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things) two installed baselayouts, one to remove, the current one to |
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keep. And most of the things were kept, like man pages, but some |
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essential files were not. |
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Looking at emerge.log, I see that I had the old 1.7.8-r1 in parallel for |
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quite a while. For about three weeks, I had masked 1.12.10-r5, because I |
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wanted to stay with 1.12.9-r2 until I had physical access to the system. |
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I removed the mask, upgraded world, and did the depclean then. |
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Wonko |
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