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From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.
Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 08:18:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <574ADE26.4060001@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160529095815.62ab0895@digimed.co.uk>

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 respectfully disagree, my migraine quotient was much lower under that
approach than with what's going on now. =|

-- 
IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.

Powers are not rights.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-29 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-28 16:05 [gentoo-user] How to be a penguin Alan Grimes
2016-05-28 16:19 ` [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] " »Q«
2016-05-28 17:06   ` Dale
2016-05-28 18:05     ` Gregory Woodbury
2016-05-28 18:18       ` Neil Bothwick
2016-05-28 18:22       ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2016-05-28 18:33       ` Dale
2016-05-28 18:49         ` Dale
2016-05-28 19:54           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-05-28 20:10             ` Dale
2016-05-29 18:03               ` »Q«
2016-05-28 20:53             ` Neil Bothwick
2016-05-29  1:17               ` Gregory Woodbury
2016-05-29  3:48                 ` Daniel Frey
2016-05-29  8:58                   ` Neil Bothwick
2016-05-29  9:20                     ` Dale
2016-05-29 16:25                       ` Daniel Frey
2016-05-29 19:33                         ` Dale
2016-05-29 12:18                     ` Alan Grimes [this message]
2016-05-29  8:28                 ` Håkon Alstadheim
2016-05-29  9:28                   ` Dale
2016-05-29 10:26                     ` Alan McKinnon
2016-05-29 10:56                       ` Neil Bothwick
2016-05-29 17:54                       ` Dale
2016-05-29 20:15                         ` Alan McKinnon
2016-05-29 21:27                           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-05-31  2:14                             ` Dale
2016-05-29 12:13                 ` Alan Grimes
2016-05-29 17:50                   ` »Q«
2016-05-29 19:40                     ` Dale
2016-05-29 17:51                   ` Dale
2016-05-31  0:32                     ` Alan Grimes
2016-05-31  1:00                       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-05-31  2:01                       ` Dale
2016-05-31  6:02                       ` Alan McKinnon
2016-05-31  7:54                       ` Neil Bothwick
2016-05-29 21:13                   ` Neil Bothwick
2016-05-31  0:48                     ` Alan Grimes
2016-05-31  5:31                       ` J. Roeleveld
2016-05-31  7:50                       ` Neil Bothwick
2016-05-29 23:58                   ` Gregory Woodbury
2016-05-30  6:25                     ` R0b0t1
2016-05-31  0:57                     ` Alan Grimes
2016-05-31  5:34                       ` J. Roeleveld
2016-05-31 13:32                         ` Alan Grimes
2016-05-31 14:21                           ` James
2016-05-31 18:30                             ` R0b0t1
2016-05-31 18:44                             ` Alan Grimes
2016-05-30  8:30                   ` Peter Humphrey
2016-05-28 20:11           ` ng0
2016-05-28 18:20     ` Neil Bothwick
2016-05-28 18:38       ` Dale
2016-05-29  8:45     ` Peter Humphrey
2016-05-29  8:58       ` Peter Humphrey
2016-05-29 17:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards

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