From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:52:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060705085233.54a8b81a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060705153523.6BD5.NICK@rout.co.nz>
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On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:37:24 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> > If you have the disk space to spare, set FEATURES="buildpkg". Then
> > reinstalling a package is as quick as with a binary distro.
> The further complication there is that in this hypothetical situation
> you are also likely to be changing some USE flags, and the prebuilt
> buildpkg packages may need in fact to be built again against a new set
> of libraries.
Changed USE flags won't normally stop a program running. Re-emerging the
previous version gets you working again in no time at all. you can then
recompile if you wish, while still being able to use the computer.
--
Neil Bothwick
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-02 15:24 [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup Matthew R. Lee
2006-07-02 19:19 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-02 20:17 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-02 20:24 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-02 20:29 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-02 23:05 ` W.Kenworthy
2006-07-03 3:31 ` Nick Rout
2006-07-03 5:30 ` Graham Murray
2006-07-03 7:12 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-03 21:37 ` Nick Rout
2006-07-04 16:29 ` Re[2]: " Robert Cernansky
2006-07-04 16:54 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-04 17:11 ` Re[2]: " Alan McKinnon
2006-07-04 17:44 ` Re[4]: " Robert Cernansky
2006-07-04 20:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-05 3:37 ` Nick Rout
2006-07-05 7:52 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2006-07-02 20:39 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-02 20:53 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-02 21:00 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-02 21:39 ` Matthew R. Lee
2006-07-02 21:45 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-02 22:01 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-07-03 22:22 ` Matthew R. Lee
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