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On Saturday 22 October 2005 02:37, Rafael Fernández López wrote: |
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> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > On Friday 21 October 2005 21:11, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: |
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> >>My hole linux box has crashed !!!! |
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> >>I made a system update yesterday with emerge -Du world.... |
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> >> |
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> >>it update my apache, mantis, nagios, bind, mysql..... today my hole |
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> >>system is against me.... |
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> >>I think in reinstall the full system .... has any one got a better |
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> >>idea, my backups are unavailable now .... |
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> > |
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> > what do you mean 'crashed'? |
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> > |
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> > does revdep-rebuilt still works? |
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> > but at least now you know why you should not use --deep. |
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> Deep is almost imprescindible when upgrading. You have to upgrade |
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> dependencies too, or maybe your new and fresh app is built onto old |
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> libraries that can make it crash, or just going slower. |
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--deep is totally superflous. |
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When something needs the latest libs, it will pull them in anyway. |
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So there is no need to install the latest version. Nobody said, that the |
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latest are always the fastest too. |
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When nothing needs the latest stuff, why change the dependency of maybe |
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douzends of apps, only to have the latest version? |
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A lot of times, this breaks stuff. Or does thinks make slower. Or make some |
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apps crashy&instabil. |
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Some apps even need a very small spectrum of versions - any change in the |
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libs, and boom, you have a memory-leaking crashy hog. Or at least something |
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that does not work like it should (like xine or mplayer, when you update |
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ffmpeg and transcode behind their backs). |
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--deep does not solve problems, it generates them. |
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