Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, Dale wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:
> >> I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three
> >> install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before
> >> moving on from there.  After that, I can just make sure to watch
> >> the FAQ's and walkthroughs when I install Xorg to make sure that
> >> I do it right.  ^_^
> >
> > why?  there is no need to do that. emerge -u --newuse world would be much
> > more 'interessting'. Btw, an deep world update ruined most of my
> > weekend... don't do --deep if you don't have to.
>
> Funny, I sync every few days or so and always do a emerge -uvD world.  I
> have less problems with that than just doing a -u world.
>
> Maybe it is when you do things consistantly that keeps things going
>well

and are you doing revdep-rebuilt afterwards?

Last time gwenviev and kipi stuff broke, krita broke and some other stuff. 
Krita did not emerge because of some changed symbols, so I had to reemerge 
koffice-libs - something revdep-rebuild did not catch. It catches changed 
versions, but if a lib is recompiled because of an -r update and there are 
symbol problems, revdep will not see them... 
I had to rebuild kdepim and a lot of other stuff, just because of that -D 
update. It sucks to have to revdep-rebuild a douzend packages. It suckes even 
more when half of them fail because of some symbols and you have to reemerge 
three or four additional libs, so you can't just let it run unattended...

In my years of gentoo, -D always caused problems and was almost never worth 
the trouble.
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