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On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:33:56PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote |
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> Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host |
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> Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram |
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> I've seen a few other mentions of the phenomena I'm about to describe. |
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> It is not clear to me why something like this would happen. Or what is |
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> to be done to prevent it. |
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> After going thru install and bulding of X based lxde desktop gentoo |
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> OS, I'm at the stage where I would do another emerge world followed by |
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> --depclean or something similar. |
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> Decided to take the @world in the two available bites; @system then |
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> @world |
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> My cmdline was `emerge -vaDt @system' |
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> Showed 44 pkgs only 2 were updates and 42 were reinstalls. |
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If you want to rebuild everything, including dependancies, try |
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emerge -e @world |
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You'll find out how many packages you have installed and how fast your |
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system is. <G> |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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