Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

Dale wrote:

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?

I have ran it a few times but it never wants to rebuild anything but gcc, which has been a bug for over a year I think. I did unmask java once and run revdep-rebuild and it wanted to rebuild OOo. That is all I can remember having trouble with.

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.

I use KDE and have a lot of packages installed and I seem to be having better luck myself. I did used to just run -u world but that was when I ran into trouble. I guess we have something different on our system.

Dale

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