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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 23:25:52
Message-Id: 4DC482FB.2080701@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !! by Albert Hopkins
1 Albert Hopkins wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 12:18 +0200, Andrea Conti wrote:
3 >
4 >> AFAIK in order to avoid this kind of
5 >> breakage system ebuilds such as mpfr never delete old library
6 >> versions;
7 >> they just print a warning saying that the old library has been kept
8 >> around and should be manually deleted after running revdep-rebuild.
9 >>
10 >> On all my sytems the transition to dev-libs/mpfr-3 was handled this
11 >> way
12 >>
13 > Perhaps the OP performed the latter step before performing the former?
14 >
15 >
16
17 I generally do my updates, run revdep-rebuild, then --depclean then
18 revdep-rebuild again, in case --depclean broke something. So far, that
19 has always resulted in a clean system. I'm not sure what happened this
20 time tho. I'm pretty sure I left it sane tho. It certainly isn't sane
21 now tho. Neither am I right now. lol
22
23 Dale
24
25 :-) :-)