Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: libungif and giflib conflict.

[Nick Currier <docfreezzzz@gmail.com>]

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Okay... Now I know. Not used to this whole build from source concept yet but
I am getting much better at it. I cleaned up everything and now have no more
broken dependencies. Apparently I've just never emerge --depclean. Again
Kudos for all the help.

Nick

On 11/2/05, Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:30, Nick Currier wrote:
> > Looks like that got it guys. Thanks tons for the help.... It seems I
> broke
> > portage by running only part ~amd64 packages. revdep-rebuild found it
> but
> > it took twice to fix..... depclean wants to get rid of tons of stuff
> though
> > so I'm thinking this is a bad idea or I have bigger problems.... Kudos
> to
> > AMD64 Gentoo for the best support team in open source.
>
> It's normal for a system that hasn't been maintained the way it should ;)
> 1. Look over the list of packages that would be unmerged with:
> # emerge --pretend depclean
> 2. Inject the packages that should not be removed in your world file with:
> # emerge --noreplace <package name>
>
> Repeats steps 1 and 2 untill you are satisfied.
> 3. clean the remaining packages with:
> # emerge --ask depclean
> 4. rebuild packages that were built against older/removed libaries:
> # revdep-rebuild --pretend (part of app-portage/gentoolkit)
>
> In order to keep your system clean in the future upgrade world like this:
> 1. upgrade your world, remerge packages that have a changed USE flag and
> upgrade deep dependencies.
> # emerge --ask --deep --newuse --upgrade world
> 2. rebuild packages that were built against older/removed libaries
> # revdep-rebuild --pretend
>
> If you ever remove a package do it like this:
> 1. remove the package
> # emerge --ask --unmerge package
> 2. remove the dependencies but always check the output. other packages
> might
> use them even though they are not a direct dependency
> # emerge --ask depclean
> 3. rebuild packages that were build against libaries you just removed
> # revdep-rebuild --pretend
>
> This is how I maintain all my systems.
> If anyone has remarks/tips I'd be glad to hear them.
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