From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 11:58:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121208115852.22b18b84@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw1wYJ9rUA41YFk0Yc=1hQqO-5DbYPo5VNOiJQ2J697AfA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:56:18 -0800, Grant wrote:
> > @preserved-rebuild is getting very good at what it does lately
> > (supported in all recent portage version including stable IIRC), as is
> > --depclean, so revdep-rebuild seldom finds anything to do these days.
> If revdep-rebuild does everything that @preserved-rebuild does and more,
> why run @preserved-rebuild at all?
revdep-rebuild repairs a system broken by updates. @preserved-rebuild
prevents updates breaking the system by emerge not removing old versions
of libraries until nothing needs them. If you don't run it, those old
libraries will remain forever.
revdep-rebuild is a kludge, a useful, valuable and previously essential
kludge, but a kludge nonetheless. Not needing it is a good thing.
--
Neil Bothwick
Taglines are like cars - You get a good one, then someone nicks it.
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-05 0:30 [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? Grant
2012-12-05 1:00 ` nybblenybblebyte
2012-12-05 1:21 ` Dale
2012-12-05 3:55 ` Grant
2012-12-05 1:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-05 4:04 ` Grant
2012-12-05 4:34 ` Dale
2012-12-05 5:15 ` Grant
2012-12-05 10:22 ` Dale
2012-12-08 0:57 ` Grant
2012-12-08 22:04 ` Grant
2012-12-08 23:25 ` Dale
2012-12-15 3:38 ` Grant
2012-12-05 12:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-08 0:55 ` Grant
2012-12-05 3:15 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-12-05 3:29 ` Allan Gottlieb
2012-12-05 3:34 ` Dale
2012-12-05 10:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-08 0:56 ` Grant
2012-12-08 11:58 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-12-08 20:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-08 21:07 ` Grant
2012-12-08 21:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-08 21:54 ` Grant
2012-12-08 22:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-09 0:41 ` Grant
2012-12-08 22:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-08 23:20 ` Dale
2012-12-09 4:22 ` Dale
2012-12-09 13:18 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-09 16:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-09 17:01 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-09 19:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-11 13:36 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-11 14:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-11 17:20 ` Michael Orlitzky
2012-12-12 6:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-12 9:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-12 15:10 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-12 9:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-12-12 12:16 ` design [depois das dez]
2012-12-09 0:33 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-12-10 7:50 ` Daniel Wagener
2012-12-10 8:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven J. Long
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