Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 12:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I try to avoid emerge -e world because
> 
> 1: It is time consuming.
> 2: It may still not work after all that time.
> 3: It is too much like the Gentoo equivalent of a reinstall and you
> are
>    none the wiser as to why it fixed something.
> 

I actually run emerge -e world on my machines about once a month +/-,
mostly to ensure the system can compile itself.  So usually for me it's
more for finding problems than resolving them, but I guess I'm so used
to doing it that it's no big deal.  I remember it used to take days, but
nowadays if I start it in the evening it's usually done in the morning,
or if I kick it off before leaving for work it's usually done before I
get home.  I also make a habit of doing a full bare-metal restore of one
of my machines once a month to make sure my backups are good.  So yeah,
I have a habit of doing "reinstalls" except I don't really think of them
as reinstalls because I (hopefully) get everything back :)

-a