Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2016 20:48:37 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote:
>
>>> Furthermore, the current portage doesn't require the revdep-rebuild
>>> step because
>>> of the @preserved-rebuild set creation.  
>> I beg to differ, portage still misses stuff more often than you think. I
>> always run revdep-rebuild after an emerge.
> I have a weekly system health check cron job that includes revdep-rebuild
> -pi (hint to Alan: that's the correct way to have revdep-rebuild ignore
> the results of previous runs). It rarely finds anything. There's still
> the occasional glitch with preserved-libs, but I fons it works
> ninety-lots % of the time, and it is far better than the "let it break
> then try to fix it approach" of the days we needed to rely on
> revdep-rebuild.
>
>


I haven't ran revdep-rebuild in likely over a year.  Just for giggles, I
ran it a bit ago.  The only thing it found was libreoffice.  That's not
exactly a critical package or anything.  Given that, I don't think it
really serves any point. 

I wonder if me having backtrack set to 100 helps with that?  Of course,
unlike poor Alan, I also have a sane approach to upgrading.  I also run
the latest non-9999 version of portage. 

Dale

:-)  :-)