From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE83F13829B for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1063614341; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:18:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173009pub.verizon.net (vms173009pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D58E14322 for ; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vz-proxy-l001.mx.aol.com ([64.236.82.153]) by vms173009.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0O7X00IQWU5VZX30@vms173009.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 May 2016 07:17:58 -0500 (CDT) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=Nc0brD34 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=FJ1kTJ0/xm5uTekQe8vMdQ==:117 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=yrkiwgmsf1kA:10 a=A91QLBOPuQBvHRv4-wEA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Received: by 108.45.68.230 with SMTP id 4222664e; Sun, 29 May 2016 12:17:57 GMT Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <5749C1AE.5020905@verizon.net> <20160528111929.503f9bbd@sepulchrave.remarqs> <5749D00C.4030408@gmail.com> <5749E469.7020601@gmail.com> <5749E832.1030404@gmail.com> <5749F761.7020803@googlemail.com> <20160528215322.12a267c2@digimed.co.uk> <574A6695.8090901@gmail.com> <20160529095815.62ab0895@digimed.co.uk> From: Alan Grimes Message-id: <574ADE26.4060001@verizon.net> Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 08:18:46 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <20160529095815.62ab0895@digimed.co.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cadd2f19-e715-47cf-a854-d63b9a4bfa00 X-Archives-Hash: 009ea24575ea419afb918420062a58c6 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.