Re: Re[6]: [gentoo-dev] Decision to remove stage1/2 from installation documentation

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 23 November 2005 01:55, Jakub Moc wrote:
> > emerge -e world && emerge -e world && emerge depclean
>
> You've missed revdep-rebuild to fix the borkage that emerge depclean
> produced. ;)

After double rebuilding of the complete world I would seriously doubt it 
that any stray dependencies were still around. If there were, it would be 
because of broken ebuilds. That should be reported as bugs and fixed 
instead of relying on revdep-rebuild.

About revdep-rebuild, that is an ugly kludge that is only there to 
aleviate that portage does not record the metadata needed to know what 
should be rebuilded without having lib files searched. In 99% of the 
cases it is also not needed to use it, and those people advocating its 
use should probably put their attention into fixing portage that it 
records and uses information about what package was used to satisfy what 
dependency. (and to verify the package tree state after each install)

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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